The InKY Reading Series will close their spring season with a free reading by three poets on Friday, May 9. This free event starts at 7 p.m. with an open stage, followed by music by John Mann at 7:30 and featured readings at 8 p.m. 

Pamela Garvey is the author of Fear, a new chapbook of poems published by Finishing Line Press, which was a finalist for their New Women's Voices competition. Garvey has published poetry in many literary journals including The North American Review, Sonora Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Pleiades, Cimarron Review and others. She has been a semi-finalist for the "Discovery"/The Nation Poetry Award. In 2004 she co-founded Words on Purpose, a St. Louis based committee of socially concerned writers who organize benefit readings. An assistant professor of English at St. Louis Community College-Meramec, Garvey lives in the city of St. Louis with her husband and son.

Ellen Birkett Morris is a writer and poet from Louisville, Kentucky. Her fiction has been published in Mindprints, A Literary Journal, Pedestal Magazine and Alimentum. Her story, "The Cycle of Life and Other Incidentals," was selected as a finalist in the Glimmer Train Press Family Matters short story competition. Her poetry has appeared in RHYME and REASON, Mindprints, The Centrifugal Eye, The Heartland Review, The Rambler, The Binnacle, The Pedestal Magazine Political Anthology and is forthcoming in Alimentum.

Angela Jackson-Brown is a student at Spalding University in the MFA in Creative Writing program. She is currently hard at work writing a novel entitled Drinking from a Bitter Cup, a collection of short stories set during the mid-1800s, and an autobiographical poetry collection. Angela resides in Louisville.

Our musical guest John Mann has veered both near and far from his native western Kentucky in his 28 years. After going to college in Lexington, Mann moved for a brief period to San Diego, before returning to Kentucky and making the move to Louisville two years ago. With an interesting musical heritage (Mann's cousin is former Sun Records artist Carl Mann, who had a hit in the fifties with an up-tempo reworking of the pop standard, Mona Lisa), Mann has tried to keep his music planted in the present with an always-keen eye to the past. In December of 2004, John released his second album called Hands in the Pavement, which was in regular rotation for a year on WFPK 91.9 in Louisville, Ky.

Affrilachian Poet Crystal Wilkinson is the 2002 recipient of the Chaffin Award for Appalachian Literature. Crystal's novel Water Street was a long-list finalist for the prestigious Orange Prize and short-listed for a Zora Neal Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation Legacy Award in fiction. She has presented workshops and readings throughout the country including the Sixth International Conference on the Short Story in English at the University of Iowa and the African American Women Writers Conference at the University of the District of Columbia. She is the author of two books, Blackberries, Blackberries(July 2000), and Water Street (September 2002), both published by Toby Press. Her work has been featured in many magazines and anthologies, including Home and Beyond: A Half-Century of Short Stories by Kentucky Writers and Torch, edited by Amanda Johnston.

Cave Canem Fellow and Affrilachian Poet Amanda Johnston has received honors such as the 2003 and 2004 Kentucky Foundation for Women Artist Enrichment grant and the 2005 Austin International Poetry Festival's Christina Sergeyevna Award. Johnston has served on the board of directors for the National Women's Alliance and the African-American Arts Technical Resource Center of Austin. She is a member of The Austin Project and is the founding editor of Torch. The author of Not Another Love Jones, a chapbook of poems, her work has appeared in Kudzu, Tempu Tupu: Africana Women's Poetic Self, Sorin Oak Review, Pluck! the Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture, The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, and many others. A former resident of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, Johnston currently resides in Austin, Texas. 

Our musical guest Andrea Davidson is a Louisville-based acoustic singer/songwriter performing songs from her soulful and folky first album, Pick Your Poison. 

More information on the Affrilachian Poets: http://www.affrilachianpoets.com/history.htm

More information on Cave Canem: http://www.cavecanempoets.org

More information on The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South: http://www.cavecanempoets.org/pages/store/Anthologies.htm

Judi Jennings, the author of Gender, Religion and Radicalism in the Long Eighteenth Century, will join The Filson during Women's history month for a lecture on March 6, 2008 at noon. She will focus on the Quaker artist and author, Mary Morris Knowles, a woman of many facets - a radical thinker, a brilliant conversationalist, a respected religious writer, an advocate for the abolition of slavery, a poet and a talented artist of needle painting.

The lecture will highlight Knowles' accomplishments and look at the connections between religion, radicalism, and gender then and now. One will also experience the argument between Knowles and Samuel Johnson come off the written page, as Jennings and guests present the dispute's dialogue.

Free and open to the public at The Filson Historical Society, 1310, South Third Street, Louisville, KY 40208

Fancy dress encouraged! Come on out for a celebration of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and music -- all of what InKY has offered for four years! Come wish InKY a happy birthday ... birthday cards and envelopes will be available for well wishes (and monetary donations, if you please!).

Cincinnati poet Jillian Weise is the author of The Amputee's Guide to Sex, a collection of poems from Soft Skull Press. Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Chelsea, Tin House and others. Her chapbook, Translating the Body, was released by All Nations Press in January 2006. Individual poems have been honored by the Academy of American Poets, the Emily Dickinson Prize Anthology, Pushcart Nominations and Verse Daily. After working at The Paris Review as an editorial assistant, she was the Alan Dugan Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, which she completed in May 2006. She is currently a Fellow at the University of Cincinnati.

Kristi Maxwell is the author of Realm Sixty-four, a collection of poems just released from Ahsahta Press. Her second book, Hush Sessions, will be published by Saturnalia in 2009. She is pursuing a doctorate at the University of Cincinnati.

Christina Lovin is the author of What We Burned for Warmth, a chapbook of poems from Finishing Line Press. Her work has appeared in Harvard Summer Review, Diner, Hunger Mountain , The Bark, and the anthologies Missing Mountains and Coal: An Anthology. She is a recipient of the Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council.

Please join Crane House for a festive, pre-holiday presentation of selected Asian etiquettes and aesthetics related to birthdays, weddings, gift-giving, New Year and special clothing.  Crane House’s gift shop will be open alongside and eclectic boutique from Ethos Asia and original prints and watercolors by Chinese artist, Waverly Liu.

Crane House, the Asia Institute, Inc.

1244 S. Third Street
Louisville, KY 40203

Brian Leung was born and raised in San Diego County. His first novel, Lost Men, was published this year by Crown/Shaye Areheart and his short story collection, World Famous Love Acts, won the Mary McCarthy Award in Short Fiction and the Asian American Literary Award for fiction. Brian's fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in Story, Crazyhorse, Grain, Gulf Coast, Kinesis, Mid-American Review, Salt Hill, Gulf Stream, River City, Runes, The Bellingham Review, The Connecticut Review, Indiana Review, Crowd, Blithe House Quarterly, and Crab Orchard Review. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Louisville.

Mike Hampton is a graduate of Spalding University's MFA in Writing program. His fiction has appeared in 3AM Magazine, Heartlands, and The Southeast Review among other places and is forthcoming in the anthology New Growth, published by The Jesse Stuart Foundation. His humor appeared in the McSweeney's anthology Mountain Man Dance Moves and he has also published poetry and essays. He is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati Clermont College, and he lives in Cincinnati with his wife Allison and daughter Ella.

Stephen George was born and bred in Louisville, and though he's spent a little time away, he pretty much likes it here for now. He is the managing editor of LEO, Louisville's only alternative newsweekly, and his work has appeared in Louisville Magazine, The New Republic Online and others. His work has been anthologized in Missing Mountains, where he appears alongside a number of other significantly more profound writers. He has had a one-act play performed, to some positive mention in certain circles. He is currently working on a novel about failure, which could turn out to be quite the experience in meta-lit.

InKY Reading Series Fiction Night
Friday November 9, 2007
Open mic at 7:00, Music at 7:30, Featured readers at 8:00
Free
The Rudyard Kipling
422 W. Oak Street
Louisville, KY

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.

I'm sure everybody and their brother remembers that this weekend is St. James weekend. If not, consider this your reminer.

When you head down for the gigantic art extravaganza make sure to head by the Mag Bar for the St. James UnFair.

What is the St. James Unfair?

About 8 years ago (about 10 years ago now), artists Paul Harshaw, Greg Edwards and the owner of the Mag Bar, David Norton got together and decided they wanted to make a statement. They had watched the St. James Court Art Show turn from what it originally was, a place where local artists could display and sell their work into this 9 square block festival where no struggling artist can afford to have their own space.

The St. James Court Art Show is good for the community and the city but its not as good as it could be. Instead of a showcase of art its a craft show with a few artists scattered around the fair.

Our goal is to support local artists and give them a chance to show their work to the biggest audience any of them will probably get this year.

Clay County-based poet, essayist and anti-mountaintop removal activist Anne Shelby's recent books include Appalachian Studies, a collection of poems, and Can a Democrat Get Into Heaven? Politics, Religion and Other Stuff You Ain't Supposed to Talk About. She will be joined by poet Nana Lampton, whose first book, The Moon With the Sun in Her Eye, leans heavily on her experience as a farmer outside of Louisville, and Ellen Anderson, assistant editor of New Southerner, a quarterly magazine devoted to sustainability, environmentalism and local economies.

Musical guests will be writer/activists Silas House and Jason Howard, whose group The Doolittles blends old mountain tradition with the passions of a new generation.

Friday, September 14
7-9 pm • free!
open mic at 7 • music at 7:30 • featured readers at 8

The Rudyard Kipling
422 W. Oak St.
Louisville, KY

This Friday's InKY event looks to be a really excellent time. Featured readers/performers are Tom Nord, deputy editor of Velocity, Glenny Brock, Jim Welp, who promises "starry-eyed liberals will take over your country and remove "God" from you Pledge of Allegiance" if you and all of your friends don't show up, and singer-songwriter Nick Peay.

Friday May 11, 2007
The Rudyard Kipling
422 W. Oak St.
Louisville, KY

Free
Brief Open Mic

Estimated time table
7-7:30 pm open mic
7:30-8 pm music
8-9 pm featured readers

37 Flood has great scoop as usual. This time it's about Jim James from My Morning Jacket performing a small, intimate show with friends at The Rudyard Kipling.

BIG NEWS: ON SUNDAY JUNE 3 JIM JAMES OF MY MORNING JACKET PLUS APPROPRIATE MUSICIANS ALONG WITH RON WHITEHEAD AND SARAH ELIZABETH PRESENT A CONCERT AT 7:00 P.M., A TRIBUTE TO THE IMPORTANCE OF THE RUDYARD KIPLING'S PRESENTATION OF GREAT NEW BANDS THROUGHOUT ITS 23 YEARS! JIM CALLED THE RUDYARD "LOUISVILLE'S RYMAN AUDITORIUM" COST OF THIS CONCERT IS $33.33.

via 37 Flood