The Word Works had another successful AWP Conference and Bookfair in Kansas City, Missouri, February 7-10, 2024, announcing new books and visiting with our the authors and friends: Leah Umansky’s Of Tyrant, Andrea Carter Brown’s September 12, Tara Betts’s Refuse to Disappear, Jennifer Richter’s Dear Future, Henry Crawford’s Binary Planet, Debora Kuan’s, Women on the Moon, Nino McQuown, Jeddie Sophronius’s. Love and Sambal, Jennifer Barber’s The Sliding Boat Our Bodies Made, Ron Mohring’s, The Boy Who Reads in the Trees, and others.