Uploaded May 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Presented by KMUW, Wichitalks is an eclectic and insightful event series featuring 10 lightning, 5-minute talks with 20 slides auto-progressing every 15 seconds. We bring together passionate individuals and an active audience for an evening of diverse presentations.
KMUW and Wichita Public Library partnered to present this special edition of Wichitalks on April 29, 2022 as part of the 2022 NEA Big Read: Wichita. Like Esperanza in "The House on Mango Street" — the 2022 Big Read book — we all have unique experiences, colorful communities, and stories of personal growth that contribute to our ideas of what home means. Sometimes they are harsh realities and sometimes they are deeply joyous. At this Wichitalks we celebrated those stories.
This year's presenters in order of appearance are:
Ty Patton
Maria Kury
Dana McCall
Jose Trejo
Ronda Welsh
Patricia Houston
Jodi Yauch
Alejandro Arias-Esparza
Suzy Finn
Gail Goolsby
Our emcee for the evening was Huascar Medina. Huascar is the current Poet Laureate of Kansas (2019-2022), Lit Editor for seveneightfive magazine, a staff editor at South Broadway Press, an Op-Ed writer for the Kansas Reflector and a member of the National Council on the Arts. He's published two collections of poetry: Un Mango Grows in Kansas (2020) and How to Hang the Moon (2017).
To learn more about Wichitalks, visit wichitalks.com.
Presented by KMUW, Wichitalks is an eclectic and insightful event series featuring 10 lightning, 5-minute talks with 20 slides auto-progressing every 15 seconds. We bring together passionate individuals and an active audience for an evening of diverse presentations.
KMUW and Wichita Public Library partnered to present this special edition of Wichitalks on April 29, 2022 as part of the 2022 NEA Big Read: Wichita. Like Esperanza in "The House on Mango Street" — the 2022 Big Read book — we all have unique experiences, colorful communities, and stories of personal growth that contribute to our ideas of what home means. Sometimes they are harsh realities and sometimes they are deeply joyous. At this Wichitalks we celebrated those stories.
This year's presenters in order of appearance are:
Ty Patton
Maria Kury
Dana McCall
Jose Trejo
Ronda Welsh
Patricia Houston
Jodi Yauch
Alejandro Arias-Esparza
Suzy Finn
Gail Goolsby
Our emcee for the evening was Huascar Medina. Huascar is the current Poet Laureate of Kansas (2019-2022), Lit Editor for seveneightfive magazine, a staff editor at South Broadway Press, an Op-Ed writer for the Kansas Reflector and a member of the National Council on the Arts. He's published two collections of poetry: Un Mango Grows in Kansas (2020) and How to Hang the Moon (2017).
To learn more about Wichitalks, visit wichitalks.com.
