Kevin Rabas

3.2 Playwright

Kevin Rabas[1] is an American poet, professor and jazz

musician. He is the author of two collections of poetry, the co-director of the Creative Writing Program at
Emporia State University, co-edits a literary magazine,
and was the winner of the Langston Hughes Award for
Poetry.[2]

As a playwright, Rabas work includes Elizabeth, a full

production staged at the North Park Playwright Festival in San Diego, a full production of Elves, at the
EMU Theatre, Lawrence Arts Center and the publication of After the Head Injury: A Dialogue in Kansas
English.[9] His creative non-ction story, Play Out,
was published in Jazz Ambassador Magazine.[10] He co1 Education
directed a short documentary, Don Jae: Jazz Poet,
which was directed and lmed by Max McCoy for the
Rabas received a PhD in English from the University of Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee in 2008. He has written
Kansas in 2007; his dissertation is titled Against Gravity: numerous reviews, interviews and proles of writers and
Last Road Trip (poems) and Sidewalk Drum (a play): A musicians.
Creative Dissertation. He received an MFA in Creative
Writing from Goddard College in 2002, an MA in English from Kansas State University with an emphasis in 3.3 Editing work
Creative Writing in 1998, and a BA in English with an
emphasis in Creative Writing and Journalism from the Rabas has served as co-editor of Flint Hills Review since
2008. He edited several books of poetry and ction pubUniversity of Missouri at Kansas City in 1995.
lished by Woodley Press,[11] including Burn by Kathleen
Johnson in 2008, Ghost Stories of the American West by
Denise Low in 2010, and Fugitive Histories by Harley El2 Recognition
liott and Certain Dawn by Tasha Haas.
Rabass book which won him the most was a collection of
poetry entitled Lisas Flying Electric Piano. The book won
the Nelson Poetry Book Award from the Kansas Authors
Club, the 2010 Kansas Notable Book Award by the Great
Plains Center for the Book,[3][4] and was a nalist in the
Sr. Madeleine Kisner Prize in Poetry from Newman University. Three of his poems (Birds Horn, Artt Franks
Speed Bag, and Eden, or Lucas, Kansas) were nominated for the Pushcard Prize by Brian Daldorph of the
Coal City Review. He won the Langston Hughes Poetry Award from the Lawrence Arts Center,[5] the Kansas
Voices Award in 2005 and 2007, and the New Voice
Award from the Salina Poetry Series in 2003.

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3.4 Music
In addition to teaching and writing, he performs regularly
with musicians, combining his poetry with jazz and funk
music. Rabas is a jazz musician who specializes mostly
in percussion and drumming. Rabas cites music as a constant source of inspiration to his poetry.[12]

4 References
[1] Kevin Rabas. Kevin Rabas. 2011-04-05. Retrieved
2012-06-25.
[2] Dads of Douglas County 785-856-5336 (2005-01-30).
Writing award goes to two poets / LJWorld.com. .ljworld.com. Retrieved 2012-06-25.

Career
Publications

[3] 2009 Member News, Kansas Authors Club.

ways.lib.ks.us. Retrieved 2012-06-25.

Rabas has had short stories published in multiple

magazines.[6][7][8] Rabas poetry recordings include Last
Road Trip (2002), a jazz poetry CD featuring Rabas reading original poetry and drumming, with Josh Schlar on
saxophone.

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[4] 2011 Kansas Notable Book List, Kansas Center for the
Book. Kcfb.info. 1966-06-08. Retrieved 2012-06-25.
[5] Paget, Mindie. Writing award goes to two poets. LJWorld.com. Retrieved 9 September 2012.

[6] Bones by Kevin Rabas | Outsider Writers Collective.

Outsiderwriters.org. 2010-07-08. Retrieved 2012-06-25.
[7] cannolipie.com (PDF). cannolipie.com.
2012-06-25.

Retrieved

[8] The Lazarus Group. Present Magazine Kansas City Arts

- Poetry/Haiku - Call for Entries, April - National Poetry
Month. Presentmagazine.com. Retrieved 2012-06-25.
[9] Kansas English, 93:1, 2009, 99-100.
[10] Jazz Ambassador Magazine (JAM), Aug./Sept. 2006, 40.
[11] Woodley Press, Washburn University, Topeka Kansas.
Washburn.edu. Retrieved 2012-06-25.
[12] Kevin Rabas, Kansas author, Map of Kansas Literature.
Washburn.edu. Retrieved 2012-06-25.

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