April Poetluck

We invite you to our April Poetluck event starting at 6:00 PM with a potluck.

We are delighted to invite you to read or listen at our Poetluck, an open mic style poetry reading event mic-style at The Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow (WCDH). Poetluck provides a supportive and inclusive space for writers to share their work and connect with fellow literary enthusiasts in the community. We welcome writers of all genres and experience levels to join us and share their poems, stories, and essays with our audience. Our Featured reader this month is award-winning writer Lonnie Whitaker.

Lonnie Whitaker attended a two-room school in the Missouri Ozarks and later earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Missouri School of Law. He served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney and retired as district counsel for a federal agency and now works as a writer. His novels, Geese to a Poor Market and Soda Fountain Blues, both won the Ozark Writers’ League Best Book of the Year Award. He is the author of an award-winning children’s book series about Mulligan, a rescued tomcat. His short stories have been published by Chicken Soup for the Soul, Five Star Publishing, Missouri Life, The Ozark Mountaineer, and several anthologies. His newspaper column, “The Way We Were . . Personal Reflections on Life in the Ozarks” is published bi-weekly by the Howell County News, and has won multiple awards from the Missouri Writers Guild, including first-place last year in the Newspaper Article category. He and his wife live in Missouri with two dogs and a rescued tomcat. They are supporters of animal rescue organizations.