Richard Newman | Kathryn Nuernberger | Leandra Spangler

Join us at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 16, for poetry by Richard Newman and Kathryn Nuernberger and fiber art by Leandra Spangler.

RICHARD NEWMAN

Richard Newman is the author of the poetry collections All the Wasted Beauty of the World (Able Muse Press, 2014), Domestic Fugues (Steel Toe Books, 2009) and Borrowed Towns (Word Press, 2005). His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Boulevard, Crab Orchard Review, New Letters, The Sun and many other periodicals and anthologies. They have been featured many times on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac, Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry, Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. He lives in St. Louis, where he serves as editor of River Styx, co-directs the River Styx at the Tavern reading series, and plays in the junkfolk band The CharFlies.

KATHRYN NUERNBERGER 

Kathryn Nuernberger is the author of the poetry collection Rag & Bone and is one of the editors of the literary magazine Pleiades. She has received fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society and the Bakken Museum of Electricity in Life to research and write poems about cabinets of curiosities, Victorian science and medical oddities. She lives on a homestead near Warrensburg, Missouri.

LEANDRA SPANGLER
Leandra Spangler's passion for papermaking began in 1986 when she first plunged her hands into a vat of pulp. In the subsequent years, Leandra has explored numerous ways of making and using paper (handmade and found) as a medium in her creative artistic expressions. After 25 years of teaching art in the public schools, Leandra became a full-time studio artist in 2000.

Spangler creates an armature, woven from reed, lashed bamboo and/or wire, as the bones for her contemporary basketry. Highly textured handmade paper of black denim creates the skin. The paper exoskeleton is sealed and finished with layers and layers of color. These sculptural vessels are shown across the country at invitational and juried exhibitions.

Spangler teaches workshops in her studio, Bear Creek Paperworks, in Columbia, Missouri.



Orr Street Studios is located at 106 Orr St. in downtown Columbia, Missouri. Join us the third Tuesday evening of each month during the academic year for literary readings and visual-arts presentations.