Capturing the feeling, meaning of Kansas in all its wild glory - The Iola Register

Capturing the feeling, meaning of Kansas in all its wild glory - The Iola Register

For Kansas Day, I want Kansans to see the Kansas that the writers of “Kansas Matters” show us: the much-ness of it all, the space we have for difference, and the poetry that underlies our bloodied endurance.  In the epilogue of “Kansas Matters: 21st-century Writers on the Sunflower State,” which I co-edited with Thomas Fox Averill, I wrote that Kansas is “a place wild with stories, overrun with strange and unexpected creatures, a place of discov…