Poets Laureate of Lawrence

Tuesday, May 28, 2024, 7:00 - 7:45 p.m. Featured Norbert Krapf. Norbert plans to read from two recent books, Homecomings: A writer’s Memoir, which covers the fifty plus years of my writing and publishing life, and Songs for All Souls, short, meditative spiritual poems, coming out the end of this month or first few days of February. From the prose memoir of 336 pages, I would select several key passages about the writing process and how I approach it. The poetry volume is my sixteenth full-length poetry collection, and I would read selected poems.  I read in the series when Liza was in charge of it, going all the way back to when the event was held elsewhere in a very small building before it moved to its current location.

Norbert Krapf is a former Indiana Poet Laureate, 2008-2010.  He has a poem in stained glass at Indianapolis International Airport.  He has received the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, a Creative Renewal Fellowship from the Arts Council of Indianapolis, and a Glick Indiana Author Award.  He performs poetry and blues with Indiana bluesman Gordon Bonham.

7:45-9 p.m. Open Mic reading

Directions: Take E. 56th Street to Post Road. Go North on Post and West on Otis. Poetry readings happen on the 2nd Floor of the Theater. We are next door to The Sterret Center. Please enter at the back side entrance, closest to the musical swings. The doors generally open by 6:45 p.m. or soon thereafter. There is an elevator inside or feel free to take the stairs. The corner meeting room overlooks the musical swings. A parking lot is to the front of the Theater or at the back off of Post Road.

Feel free to bring a capped drink and snacks.  Arts for Lawrence has a number of accessibility options for our patrons. If you have any questions about parking, or seating, or have a specific request, please contact the Program Manager, Lecia Floyd at leciafloyd@artsforlawrence.org or at (317) 875-1900 ext. 100