Ferris wheels and funnel cakes. Showing goats and eating hotdogs. Live music and prize vegetables.
These are some of the big draws for the Kansas State Fair, held every September in Hutchinson, KS.
But these are also great subjects for poems.
This year at the Kansas State Fair, there will be 20 poems about displays and competitions held on the Fairgrounds.
There are odes to poultry and quilts, poems for Future Farmers of American and Scouts, pottery and celebrations of butter.
The signs will be up around the fair both weeks of the State Fair, but there will also be a reading by some of the contributing poets on Saturday, September 7th at 5pm. It will be held in the Capper House.
Please join us for this event if you are at the State Fair that day, and if you see the posters on another day, please read and enjoy this new addition to the Kansas State Fair!
— Traci Brimhall, University Distinguished Professor / Poet Laureate of Kansas
K-State English 