John D Evans and The Evans Poetry Collection

Amazement and surprise will fill the event as guests share their personalized poem with others. Smiles and conversations would illuminate the atmosphere. Poetry will serve as the ideal tool for helping others to break the ice and get to know one another. Beautifully and professionally computer-generated literary art on fine stationary will give guests a treasure, a personalized poem, to take home. The event may also be captured via a memory book, a collection of poetry written by the author that is inspired by the event and including a collection of all poems written in conjunction with the event (all guests who completed Specialty Poem Information forms).

John D. Evans is a renaissance man.

A native Chicagoan, Mr. Evans is an educator, humanitarian, folklorist, author, executive producer, artist, lyricist, philosopher, and poet whose fifth installment of The Evans Poetry Collection, Diary of A Renaissance Man, was chosen and named a Children's Choice book (2008) by the International Reading Association, the Children's Book Council, and 10,000 schoolchildren.

In the summer of 2000, John D. Evans published Acres Of Green And Oceans Of Blue: Diary Of A Runaway. This literary work was later followed by More Than A Club Kid: Man Versus Self (2002); Things That Make My World Go ‘Round: A Poetic Memoir (2003); How Deep I Can Be: Lessons And Confessions (2005); Diary Of A Renaissance Man: Axioms, Aphorisms, Art, and Poetry (2007); J.D.’s Groove: Poetry by John D. Evans (2008); Between The Sun And The Shade: Thanksgiving with the Davis Family (2009); The Adventures Of Snout Series, a four-volume children’s book series (2013); From Shining Doorknobs to Sporting Diamonds: Poetry and Nuggets of Wisdom (2009); and Washin' My Hands (2010), a spoken word CD and the first audio recording of The Evans Poetry Collection, capturing over 200 years of African American poetry from such poets as Phyllis Wheatley, Langston Hughes, and Gwendolyn Brooks.

A candidate for Doctor of Education (Educational Leadership), Mr. Evans is dedicated to educating and inspiring others. Mr. Evans is a member of the Poetry Society of America, The Academy of American Poets, the Illinois State Poetry Society, The Kappa Delta Pi Honor Society of Education and Phi Mu Alpha Fraternity of America, Inc.

Poetry Parties by John D Evans and The Evans Poetry Collection may be as intimate as a small gathering or as public as a full-out stage production with lights, cameras, and action with guests being the stars of the show. A 6 ft. table with two chairs is suggested for the author and personal assistant.