Attendees at the Prairie Village Arts Fair this weekend will have the chance to inspire and take home a poem written on the spot by a former Poet Laureate of Kansas, Huascar Medina. 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 t