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Upcoming Poetry Events

Over the next couple weeks, Kentucky offers opportunities to eat world cuisine while enjoying a reading, listen to the Affrilachian Poets while sipping on beer, and share an open mic with two esteemed poets.

These event listings came from the Kentucky Literary Calendar. Continue reading

Pages & Pints | Chapter 3 | Ron Houchin, Denton Loving, & Eric Scott Sutherland

Pages & Pints 3 Ron Houchin, Denton Loving, & Eric Scott SutherlandPages & Pints will meet tomorrow night at Apollo’s Pizza in Richmond Kentucky. The guests will be Ron Houchin, Denton Loving, and Eric Scott Sutherland.

Ron Houchin lives across the Ohio River from his hometown of Huntington, West Virginia. You can read some of his poetry at Connotation Press, Cortland Review, Still: The Journaland Salmon PoetryHis latest collection of poetry is The Quiet Jars (Salmon Poetry).

According to his bio at Still: The Journal, Denton Loving “lives on a farm near the historic Cumberland Gap, where Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia come together” (source). You can find some of his writing at Town Creek Poetry, a review of his latest book at The Tishman Reviewand an interview with the Rappahannock Review. His latest book of poetry is Crimes Against Birds (Main Street Rag Company 2014).

Eric Scott Sutherland might be—according to his poem “Kentucky is my body“:

a gun rack
locked in a spare bedroom
where quilts lay spread
across peaceful beds

You can find Eric’s writing at Real Pants, Still: The Journal, his own website, and the Accents Blog. Pendulum is currently available from Accents Publishing.

Also, Ellen Birkett Morris will appear as a special guest and as part of Pages & Pint’s partnership with EKU’s Creative Writing MFA Program, the Bluegrass Writers Studio.

When: Thursday, March 5, 2015 @ 8pm
Where: Apollo’s Pizza
228 South Second St.
Richmond, KY 40475
(859) 623-0330

Free Poetry Events Week of 11/10/14

It looks like this Thursday is packed as The Lexington Youth Arts Council is having a poetry slam and the second “chapter” of “Pages and Pints” continues at Apollo Pizza in Richmond with Gurney Norman and Ed McClanahan.

Also, while not necessarily a poetry event, The Wild Fig New and Used Bookstore has been having a fundraising campaign on Indiegogo to raise money for expansion. The campaign ends this Saturday, Novemeber 15th, so check out their Facebook page for more information or go straight to Indiegogo. Continue reading