) The 42nd Salina Spring Poetry Series, sponsored and organized by Salina Arts & Humanities, continues on Tuesday, April 14, with a reading by Luisa Muradyan.
The reading will begin at 7 pm at Red Fern Booksellers (106 S Santa Fe Ave). Admission will be $5 at the door and free for students with ID.
Traci Brimhall, Kansas Poet Laureate, curated this year’s series. Brimhall selected poets with a broad range of perspectives, who will share their work in Salina this April.
“Originally from Odessa, Ukraine, Luisa has lived in Kansas for most of her life. I knew Luisa’s poems before I was lucky enough to know her as a person, and on both the page and in person discovered she’s remarkably funny. Her poems defy so much of what I thought poems could do. Celebrities show up, pop culture is everywhere, and she can make you laugh and cry in the span of a page,” says Brimhall.
Luisa Muradyan is the author of I Make Jokes When I'm Devastated (SMU Project Poetica, 2025) When the World Stopped Touching (YesYes Books, 2027), and American Radiance (University of Nebraska Press, 2018). She holds a Ph.D. in Poetry from the University of Houston and won the 2017 Raz/ Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize. Additionally, Muradyan is a member of the Cheburashka Collective, a group of women and nonbinary writers from the former Soviet Union. Additional work can be found at Best American Poetry, the Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, and Only Poems, among others.
For needed accommodations, please call Amanda Morris at Salina Arts & Humanities at 785-309-5770 between 8:00 am - 6:00 pm. Every effort will be made to accommodate known disabilities. For material or speech access, please call at least five working days prior to the event.