Blue City Poets

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Blue City Poets is written by Polly Alice McCann and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 197015196X (ISBN 10) and 9781970151961 (ISBN 13).

This chapbook edited by Polly Alice McCann was inspired by a painting for the 2018 Kansas City Charlie Parker Jazz Festival, edited by an artist, illustrated by a painter, designed by a portrait artist, and filled with the artful words of poets. Poets are often artists and vice versa. This collection weaves together a cross-section of voices that represent differing experiences from a region that crosses one river and two states and as "wide the river bend as you like." These poems certainly have rhythm, and they hold the blueness of the open sky and the soul of Kansas City music. Each poet's voice is a Kansas City voice, and each is true. The book is divided into sections by both a sense of emotion and a sense of place: love and loss and of course urban neighborhoods and sweet farmland. Kansas City is all that and more. Enjoy these poems and art of both heart and heartland.