Janet Banks

Disrupting the Flow Janet Banks

I am a poet with two books of poetry titled Stewed Soul that was published in 2008 and On the Edge of Urban that was published in 2013. I have been writing professionally for 18 years, and my poems have been published in various Literary journals/magazines/newspapers such as: The Kansas City Star, Potpourri Literary Journal, Grist Literary Magazine, Forum: A Women's Studies Journal (Avila University), Poets-At-Large (The Writers Place), Scop Literary Magazine (Avila University), and The Women's Studies Group (Avila University). I was a featured reader at The Cornelia Street Café in New York City, The Writers Place, The Kemper Museum of Art, The Kansas City Public Library, the Johnson County Public Library, and gave a featured performance for The Kansas City Fringe Festival which is a major Arts Organization in Kansas City, Missouri. I gave a featured performance for The Kansas City Literary Festival which was a national event. I have been a featured reader at Propero's Bookstore, Missouri Center For the Book ( Stephens College-Columbia Missouri), and I was a Guest Lecturer at the University of Missouri--Kansas City for a Graduate English Class at UMKC. I was a Special Guest Author along with the Award-Winning Poet and Professor Stanley E. Banks on a Public Education Television Program which was sponsored by the University of Missouri--Kansas City, and the program was titled "Writers on Writing." I have been a Featured Guest Poet on several radio programs on KCUR, 89.3 FM and KKFI, 90.1 FM. I have my own Production Company called BanksWorks, and one of the programs is titled Some Funk From Him And Some Funk From Her.