Eat Your Words Book Launch Event with Traci Brimhall

Name: Eat Your Words Book Launch Event with Traci Brimhall
Start: 2025-08-25T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-08-25T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Union Street Social

Schedule

Mon Aug 25 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Union Street Social | Emporia, KS

YOU'RE INVITED! A NIGHT OF FOOD, POETRY, & A BOOK OF BOTH!
About the Event:
Please join us for food, poetry readings, prize giveaways, and more, from 6-8 p.m. on August 25th at Union Street Social!
Poet Laureate of Kansas Traci Brimhall will host the event and talk about Eat Your Words, its contributors, her role as poet laureate, and what we can do to continue celebrating Kansas poetry and food! Eat Your Words will be available for purchase at the event, or you can preorder your copy now to pick up at the event (or have it shipped to you, if you're unable to make it to the event)! Preorder at www.meadowlarkbookstore.com.
Tickets are $5 and cover the cost of three raffle tickets and plenty of snacks! Additional raffle tickets can also be purchased for $2 each (or for a nonperishable food donation), and raffle prizes include goodies from a variety of chefs, restaurants, and other Kansas businesses. Purchase tickets at www.meadowlarkbookstore.com.
Union Street Social owner and chef, Amanda Hague, is featured in the book, and she will be preparing book-inspired snacks for your enjoyment! The cash bar will be open, too! Union Street Social is a Midwestern-style supper club and classic cocktail bar. Attire ranges from casual to cocktail, so wear what you want!
About the Book:
ENJOY THESE 20 RECIPES FROM 20 GREAT CHEFS
These recipes have come from all four corners of Kansas. All of these great chefs have offered up delicious recipes that can be small snacks, hearty meals, or treats for your sweet tooth.
SAVOR THESE 20 POEMS FROM 20 WONDERFUL WRITERS
Paired with each of the recipes is a poem that it inspired. Kansas poets reflected on the joy, grief, delight, and nostalgia of some classic (and new) dishes.
COOK UP YOUR OWN LINES WITH 9 PROMPTS
This book also contains prompts based on the poems. The prompts offer ingredients for poems and a set of instructions you can use—or cook up your own poetic recipe!
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