3:00–4:30pm
Matfield Community Church
Matfield Green, KS

Join Huascar Medina in Matfield Green to learn more about the form and history of the Cento: a poem composed entirely of lines taken from other poems or texts to honor a poet or writer, explore ideas, and form new narratives. 

This event is free and will take place in the Matfield Community Church in Matfield Green, KS. 

**Please note that Highway K-177 is closed for construction between Council Grove and the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve. Check detour routes and travel times.

Huascar Medina served as the Poet Laureate of Kansas from 2019 to 2022 and became an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, in 2022. Huascar Medina has authored three books of poetry: Protest As Love Poem (Meadowlark Press, 2026) Un Mango Grows in Kansas (Spartan Press, 2020) and How to Hang the Moon (Spartan Press, 2019). His forthcoming collection of essays, The Prairie Fool (Plainspoken Press, 2027), is a lyrical meditation on politics, class, and culture.

Huascar was born in Killeen, TX, and has lived artfully in Kansas for over two decades. As a second-generation immigrant living in the Heartland, Huascar considers himself a New American exploring the boundaries between identity and location, focusing on cultural empathy, social cohesion, class structures, first-generation trauma, mental health, and internalized diasporic longing and belonging.