Kentucky Poet Laureate Jane Gentry Vance InKY Reading Series

This Friday October 12 Kentucky Poet Laureate Jane Gentry Vance will be featured at the InKY Reading Series at the Rudyard Kipling.

Kentucky Poet Laureate Jane Gentry Vance is the author of Portrait of the Artist as a White Pig (Louisiana State University Press, 2006) as well as A Year in Kentucky: A Garland of Poems and A Garden in Kentucky. Her poems have been published in notable anthologies and journals such as the Sewanee Review, Harvard Magazine, Southern Poetry Review, the American Voice and Humanities in the South. A recipient of fellowships from the Kentucky Arts Council, Yaddo, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Assocation, Vance teaches at the University of Kentucky.

Vance will be joined by Oregon poet Pamela Steele, author of Paper Bird, a collection of poems rooted deeply in her West Virginia heritage. A graduate of Spalding University's MFA in Writing program, Steele also served as a founding director of the InKY Reading Series. Music will be provided by Sean Hopkins, the frontman of Louisville insurgent country/rock group Dallas Alice.

The InKY Reading Series, featuring quality literature and live music, has served as a platform for emerging and established local and regional writers since February 2004.