Latest Past Events

Meet Me There: Featuring Niki Herd and Victoria Chang

From the organizers: "Meet Me There" is a monthly intergenerational poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction experience curated by trans/genderqueer poet and sound artist Samuel Ace. Writers exploring genre and gender boundaries will be a special focus of this series. This event takes place on crowdcast, Charis' virtual event platform. December's featured poets are Niki Herd […]

Free

Black History in Poetry and the Visual Archive featuring Tyree Daye, Niki Herd, Alison C. Rollins

Kansas City Convention Center Kansas City

Black History in Poetry and the Visual Archive featuring Tyree Daye, Niki Herd, Alison C. Rollins at 3:20 pm to 4:35 pm, Saturday, February 10th How do we think of ourselves in history, and when we do, what do we see? Three innovative poets consider how personal and public histories—Black histories in particular—are intertwined and how […]

Exhibit B: Black Archives of Mid-America with Niki Herd, Roger Reeves, & more

Black Archives of Mid-America 1722 E 17th Terrace, Kansas City

From the organizers: "In collaboration with the Guild Literary Complex, Cave Canem, and the BLK+BRWN Bookstore, Exhibit B will be hosting a series of literary events, free and open to the public, at the Black Archives of Mid-America which will center Black artists and allies." The poets who will give the opening reading include Roger […]