Last InKY Event of 2007 features Louisville Poet Nickole Brown

Norman "Buzz" Minnick was born and raised in Louisville. His poetry collection To Taste the Water won the First Series Award in Poetry from Mid-List Press and was published in 2007. He currently lives in Indianapolis and teaches at Butler University.

Poet James Owens is the author of An Hour is the Doorway (Black Lawrence Press) and Frost Lights a Thin Flame (Mayapple Press). His poems, stories, translations, and book reviews have appeared in numerous journals, including Birmingham Poetry Review, Kennesaw Review, Tryst, The Harrow, and Language and Culture. He edited The Sow's Ear Poetry Review from 2001-2004. After working in journalism for many years and earning an MFA from the University of Alabama, Owens now lives with his wife and three children in La Porte, Ind.

December's InKY will feature music by Louisville songwriter Jeff Shelton. Performing under his moniker the mack,  Shelton creates a unique sound and lyrical prose have been compared to Nick Lowe, the Kinks, and Chocolate Genius.