All That Jazz

Kevin Rabas chairs the Department of English Modern Languages and Journalism at Emporia State and leads the poetry and playwriting tracks. He has eight books includ- ing Birds Horn Lisas Flying Electric Piano a Kansas Notable Book and Nelson Poetry Book Award winner Sonny Kenners Red Guitar also a Nelson Poetry Book Award winner Green Bike Eliots Violin Late for Cymbal Line Spider Face: stories and Songs for My Father: poems & stories. Rabas writes regularly for Kansas Citys Jazz Ambassador Magazine (JAM). Rabass plays have been produced across Kansas and in North Carolina and San Diego. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize ve times and Rabas is the winner of the Langston Hughes Award for Poetry the Victor Contoski Poetry Award the Jerome Johanning Playwriting Award and the Salina New Voice Award.