Please join us for our April 13th reading featuring Susan Carman, Bob Sykora, and Patricia Cleary Miller.
Susan Carman is a Pushcart Prize nominee and former poetry editor for Kansas City Voices. Her poetry has appeared in numerous publications, most recently in 1-70 Review, Kansas City Voices, and the anthology Of Our Own Accord. Retired from a career working with vulnerable populations, she now teaches English to new immigrants.
Bob Sykora is the author of the chapbook / Was Talking About Love-You Are Talking About Geography (Nostrovia! 2016) and the collection Utopians in Love (Game Over Books 2025). A graduate of the UMass Boston MFA program, he teaches at community college, edits with Garden Party Collective, co-hosts The Line Break podcast and curates the KC Poetry Calendar.
Patricia Cleary Miller taught literature and creative writing at Rockhurst University for three decades. She founded and edited The Rockhurst Review, and chaired the English Department and the Humanities Division. Her poetry collections, with BkMk Press, are Starting a Swan Dive, Can You Smell the Rain? and Warmer Than Yesterday, and, with Helicon Nine, the chapbook Dresden. She was a founding board member of The Writers Place and served as president.