Former College Faculty Members Return to Western for Oct. 29 Reading

ROCK SPRINGS — Three writers and former faculty members of Western Wyoming Community College will return to give a reading from their various works Wednesday evening Oct. 29 at 7 p.m.

Writer, editor and publisher Rick Kempa will join memoirist Marcia Hensley and Wyoming Poet Laureate Barbara Smith for the reading.

“My colleagues and fellow writers are coming home, back to Sweetwater County, back to where much of our writing began,” Smith said. “We are looking forward to sharing those experiences and our stories.” The reading will be held in Room 1302 at the college where the three taught in the English department.

In addition to being colleagues, the three writers have had a writing connection for many years. Now living in Grand Junction, Colorado with his wife Fern, poet and essayist