Kentucky Writers Day 2016

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Lori meadows, Executive Director for the Kentucky Arts Council gave the opening remarks for Kentucky Writers’ Day on April 25th, 2016.

Below are videos of the other readers, three of which are poets published by Accents and all of which are Poet Laureates of Kentucky.

Kentucky’s current Poet Laureate, George Ella Lyon, read during the event. You can read a poem by George Ella Lyon in this year’s & Grace: Selections from Lexington Poetry Month 2015.

Accents-published author Frank X Walker (About Flight, Accents Publishing) also read. Poet Laureate from 2013-2014. Click here to see his 2015 reading during Lyons’ induction ceremony.

Richard Taylor is yet another Accents author (Fading Into Bolivia, Accents Publishing). Poet Laureate from 1999-2000.

Gurney Norman. Poet Laureate from 2009-2010.

Joe Survant. Poet Laureate from 2003-2004.

Sena Jeter Naslund. Poet Laureate from 2005-2006.

Kentucky Writers’ Day is a celebration of Kentucky writers in and around the Capital Rotunda in Frankfort, Kentucky. It was established by the Kentucky General Assemply in 1990 in order to honor Robert Penn Warren, which is why it is set on or around his birthday, April 24th. Every odd year, the event inaugurates the new Kentucky Poet Laureate. In 2015, that was George Ella Lyon.

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