Kansas Matters

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Kansas Matters </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>gathers many of the state's leading literary voices to offer profound insights into the feelings that Kansas evokes. This living map of personal geographies and histories draws on the rich emotions and memories that bind Kansans to the Sunflower state.  </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Brought together in a new anthology of poetry and prose these writers reflect on twenty-first-century Kansas: on the beauty of the land and the fight for its preservation; the divisions of identity and the belonging of home; the context of our history and our hopes for the future. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>These contemporary voices show us Kansas as we know it to be and Kansas as we want it to be-a complex emotional and inspiring assertion of why Kansas matters.</span></p>