2022 Rose Garden Readings

These events are FREE & open to the public.

Readings occur in the Rose Garden's Garden Center (just west of the Shelter)
52nd Wornall, Kansas City, MO 64112   
These events are in partnership
with ​The Writers Place! 
Saturday, May 14, 2022  2p - 330p Garden Center's Rose Room
  • Alastair Heim, children’s author
  • Scott Emmons, children’s author
  • 2022 Children’s Writing Contest Winners will receive their awards and read their winning poems.
Saturday, July 9, 2022   3p - 430p
​Garden Center's Rose Room
  • Maryfrances Wagner, MO Poet Laureate
  • Greg Field, poet
Saturday, October 22, 2022  
Garden Center's Rose Room
  • Phyllis Becker, poet
  • Greg German, poet
  • Angela Hagenbach, novelist
Some of our fabulous readers who have presented to receptive crowds !