ARTSPEAK RADIO with Jim Khan, Lynn Benson, Wayne Courtois, and C.L. Cattano

Wednesday June 14, 2017 Producer/host of ARTSPEAK RADIO, Maria Vasquez Boyd talks with poet Jim Khan, artist Lynn Benson, writer Wayne Courtois plus author C.L. Cattano. Jim Khan lives in Overland Park and has published poems in Number One Magazine, Wittenberg Review of Literature and Arts, Pharaohs, Unlikely Stories (#BlackArtMatters September, 2016), Read Local (2016), Rigorous (Jan 2017), Rat's Ass Review (Mar 2017) and the chapbooks Paean for Billy Collins (Calliope Club Press, 2017) and NanoText (Medusa's Laugh Press, February 2017). The author is slated for shufPoetry, Clockwise Cat, Issue 36 (2017) and I-70 Review (September 2017). Lynn Benson was born not far from the Atlantic Ocean and raised in the US heartland. She’s always felt a tug to be near water...a primary focus in her current work. She left the corporate world in 2010 in order to work full-time as an artist in the Kansas City region, establishing her studio near the confluence of Kansas City’s major rivers, where her work explores the meandering lines of rivers and shorelines worldwide, and the delicate balancing act of our current natural and political world. Benson has had a solo exhibition, “Acid Wash: Playing with Consequences” at Kansas City’s Leedy-Voulkos Art Center,…