Topeka Has Lola's Has Poetry

Poetry reading at Lola's Saturday evening, Joe Harrington and Cyrus Console.



Dennis Etzel, the driving force behind Top City Poetry and a poet and teacher himself, introduces the two readers.





Joe Harrington, poet and professor of English at the University of Kansas. A bit more of his work is here.


Cyrus Console, poet, Topekan, KU student.



Part of the crowd watching Cyrus read.

It was a lot more interesting than it looks here, I promise. Please check the Top City Poetry blog for announcements regarding upcoming readings. The next one will be on Saturday, November 22, and will feature three poets--Brian Daldorph, Carl Tillona and Israel Wasserstein. Come enjoy!

Lola's Neon on a Drippy Day

Lola's, Fleming Place at 10th & Gage, where I spend probably too much of my somewhat free time, and where I interact and discourse with people of like mind, unlike mind, and hardly any mind at all.

We all love it.

George!

This is George.

George drinks coffee nearly every day at Lola's Cafe Espresso when he's not running off to California, Alaska, or other parts of the world. He also volunteers at Topeka-Shawnee County Public Library, goes to weekly meetings of a writer's club at Barnes & Noble, is active in the UUFT, and takes classes at Washburn University.

George studied for the ministry but spent most of his "working" days as a teacher.

George is a writer, an artist, a storyteller, a poet, an actor, and a very entertaining personality and friend.

He's one of Topeka's treasures.

Topeka Has Poetry!

Not all the poets on this list are from Topeka, but sometimes some of them are. For updates on the readings organized by Top City Poetry, go to their website, Top City Poetry. Please check that site before coming, as dates do occasionally change.

And do come and enjoy! I'll be at as many of these as possible myself.