I don't know anything about Kate Buckley so I'm just going to give you the press release blurb:

Please join Carmichael's for a unique poetry reading by Kate Buckley from her new book, A Wild Region. Artist and poet Buckley grew up in Kentucky and her finely crafted poems strongly reflect her Appalachian roots. She is the winner of the Gabeheart Prize for Imaginative Writing and the North American Review's James Hearst Poetry Prize.

Carmichael's Bookstore

2720 Frankfort Avenue

Louisville, KY

(502) 896-6950

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.

Friday May 9, 2008
7PM
Free

Rudyard Kipling
422 W. Oak
Louisville, KY

I don't know a single thing about this book other than the fact that it's got a great, great title. OK that's not quite true. I also know it's a book of poetry and that the author Sherry Wright will be reading at Carmichael's on Saturday April 19, 2008 at 4PM.

Carmichael's Bookstore
2720 Frankfort Avenue
Louisville, KY

I got a press release with a mondo listing of events for National Poetry Month events in Louisville. Here you go:

Saturday, April 5, 7:00 p.m. 

Poet Brett Eugene Ralph reading at uzoMa Gallery, 1813 Frankfort Avenue

This is Brett's first Louisville-area public reading in ten years!  He will be reading from Black Sabbatical, his debut collection to be published by Sarabande in 2009 as part of the Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature.

Tuesday, April 8, 7:30 p.m. 

Nationally renowned poet Gerald Stern reading at the Bingham Poetry Room, Ekstrom Library, University of Louisville

The author of fourteen books of poetry, Stern has received the National Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, the Lamont Poetry Prize, the Wallace Stevens Award, and the Ruth Lilly Prize.  He was the first Poet Laureate of New Jersey, taught for fifteen years at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and was named a Chancellor to the Academy of American Poets in 2006.  As part of our Quarternote Chapbook Series, Sarabande published Stern's The Preacher last September.

Sunday, April 13, 4:00 p.m.

Sallie Bingham reads at Carmichael's on Frankfort Avenue

Louisville's own Sallie Bingham is back in town!  Forty-year veteran of the novel, noted feminist, and author of over ten books, Bingham will be celebrating Sarabande's publication of her latest collection of stories, Red Car, with a reading and book signing.

Monday, April 21, 7:30 p.m.

The Pink Door presents readings by Thousand Poets Festival coordinators Merle Bachman, Nickole Brown, Jessica Farquhar, and Kate Welsh.  Music to follow by Moving Sidewalk.

If you haven't heard yet, Thousand Poets is an assemblage of events taking place in Louisville during the month of April in honor of National Poetry Month. Co-organized by Spalding University's BFA in Creative Writing and Well Lit Press, Thousand Poets seeks to engage citizen poets, connect the disparate local poetic communities in a transcendent way, and to connect the literary art of poetry to other forms of art.  Make sure to check out their calendar at http://www.thousandpoets.org/ !

Monday, April 28, 7:30 p.m. 

Poet Mary Jo Bang will be reading as part of Sarabande's Pink Door Reading Series-

Bang is an acclaimed poet whose book Elegy just won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry this month!  Her first collection, Apology for Want, received the Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize for first book of poetry in 1996. Her other works include Louise in Love and The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans. She works as the poetry editor of the Boston Review and teaches at Washington University in Saint Louis.

April is National Poetry Month and Louisville is going to celebrate it right with the month long Thousand Poets festival. From organizer Jessica Farquhar.

"...a month-long festival here in Louisville to celebrate National Poetry Month, and it all starts with a bang this Friday, April 4th! In conjunction with the Market Street trolley hop, we'll have poetry in the galleries and some other special treats. I'd like to highlight the music that'll be taking place that night in the St. John Renaissance Theater (637 E. Market-across from Red Tree). The Big Time Band will perform after fabulous local poets Erin Keane and Adam Day read. Closing the show at 10 will be Brett Eugene Ralph, giving what he calls " a one-time-only 'chamber country' performance backed by Peter Searcy on cello and Jamie Daniel on violin. " Admission is five dollars, and the show is all-ages. Saturday night, April 5th, at uzoMa art space (1813 Frankfort Ave), Brett will read from Black Sabbatical, his debut poetry collection, which will be published by Sarabande Books in 2009. (Free admission.)"

Next Monday March 31, 2008 it will be time for another poetry reading at The Pink Door brought to you by Sarabande Books. This month's reading features Louisville poet Lynnell Edwards and Louisville singer-songwriter Brigid Kaelin. It's an all "Louisville produces kick-ass artists" show.

From the press release:

If you don't yet know about Lynnell Edwards, you definitely should.  She is the author of two books of poetry, both published by Red Hen Press, The Farmer's Daughter and The Highwayman's Wife.  Lynnell's poems are by turns graceful, tough, and downright funny. . . . to give you a taste of her work, I've pasted one of my favorite poems by her below.  (She wrote it to her son after seeing him watch an all-female version of Fear Factor in which the women were coaxed into walking through a box of reptiles to hunt out gold coins.)

Brigid Kaelin will follow. Known for her clever songwriting and energetic live show, Brigid is also a seriously trained musician. You may come to the show for her red hair, and you may laugh at the yodeling. But then you'll be completely amazed by her virtuosic chops on the accordion, piano, guitar, and musical saw, and suddenly you'll realize that you love her songs too. Part vaudeville, part rock, Kaelin writes killer songs and knows how to entertain.

Monday March 31, 2008
7:30PM

The Pink Door
2222 Dundee Road
Louisville, KY 40205

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

Open mic at 7:00, music at 7:30, featured readers at 8:00
Free

The Rudyard Kipling
422 W. Oak Street
Louisville, KY

It's time for another poetry filled Monday, presented by Sarabande Books at The Pink Door.

The featured poet for the evening is Joshua Poteat from Richmond, Virginia. After Poteat's reading local musician John Paul Wright will be playing bluegrass and folk music.

Poet Joshua Poteat and musician John Paul Wright
Monday February 24, 2008
7:30PM

The Pink Door
2222 Dundee Road
Louisville, KY

The InKY Reading Series turns 4 tomorrow February 8, 2008. Head down to the Rudyard Kipling and help them celebrate with poetry, reading, open mic and music.

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!).

The evening will feature poet Frank X Walker, novelist Janna McMahan,  creative non-fiction writer Emily Boden and songwriter Joe Manning.

Open mic at 7:00, music at 7:30, featured readers at 8:00
Free

The Rudyard Kipling
422 W. Oak Street
Louisville, KY

The Pink Door and Sarabande Books present poetry readings the last Monday of each month. The first reading for 2008 is this coming Monday January 28, 2008 at 7:30PM. The featured poet is Aaron Belz from St. Louis. Live music follows the reading.

Monday evening will also be your first change to see Lumberyard, "a new design/literary arts magazine produced right here in Louisville."

The Pink Door
2222 Dundee Road
Louisville, KY

More info on poet Aaron Belz after the jump.

The InKY Reading Series first event of 2008 could be described as a poetry extravaganza.

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.

In addition to the poetry singer/songwriter Teneia Sanders will be performing songs from her first full album, Soul Catcher.

Friday January 11, 2008
Open mic at 7:00, music at 7:30, featured readers at 8:00
Free

The Rudyard Kipling
422 W. Oak Street
Louisville, KY

More info after the jump

Sarabande Books last Pink Door reading of the year is tonight Monday, November 26th.

Poet Angela Estes (winner of the 2001 Field Poetry Prize, the 2001 Alice Fay di Castagnola Prize from the Poetry Society of America, and the 1995 Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize) will visit us from Ohio State University.

Poet Angela Estes won't be there, but in her stead will be the fabulous Erin Keane, whose book, The Gravity Soundtrack, just came out with WordFarm Press. She also has a chapbook, The One-Hit Wonders (Snark Publishing), and many of you may know her from her work with the InKY Reading Series here in Louisville. Keane also writes a blog for Velocity and teaches at Bellarmine and the Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts. (You can read more about her and her work at http://www.sensilla.com)

Afterward, Joey Mudd will be playing.

As always, this event is free and open to the public, and will start at 7:30PM

Pink Door
2222 Dundee Road
Louisville, KY 40205

The weekend events roundup is coming to you quite early this week to give us time to strategically plan out our holiday activities around stuffing ourselves enjoying holiday foods with restraint.

Friday November 23
Costumed demonstrators will be in the kitchen and woodshop from 11:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m during the the Locust Grove Holiday Sampler. Everything in the museum store will be 20% so you can stock up on gifts.

The F.A.T. Friday Trolley Hop on Black Friday is an event I've been looking forward to for months. It combines food, drink, art and shopping, all things that I enjoy very much. I'm strategically planning to land on Frankfort Avenue mid afternoon. Do a bit of hopping and shopping, refuel at the Irish Rover for dinner and then even more shopping. I suspect dessert at Sweet Surrender will be on the agenda as well.

After you're done on Frankfort Avenue just drive on down to Mellwood for more art and more shopping at the Butchertown Market with Moxie Letterpress's Give the Gift of Art event. If you're there close to 8PM stick around for the poetry reading and live music.

If you can't stand the shopping hordes and nightmare of parking on Frankfort Avenue head over to Quills Coffee & Books where Janet L. Boyd will be reading from and signing Don't Get Me Started: The LEO Years at 6 PM.

Saturday November 24, 2007
The American Printing House for the Blind is hosting a Family Day Open House from 10AM-3PM.

Author and architect Liesl Geiger will be at Carmichael's on Frankfort Avenue discussing and signing her new book Essence of Home: Timeless Elements of Design.

Midnight at The Baxter is forcing you to choose between The Beatles in "A Hard Days Night" and Talking Heads in "Stop Making Sense"

Sunday November 25, 2007
Phyllis EagleTree will be at Carmichael's on Frankfort Avenue discussing her new book Roll The Wheel: The Abundant Life and Wisdom of Mae Phillips.

Derby City Espresso is giving you free music and free beer. Clearly they're good people. Join them for a tasting of three seasonal beers from Schlafly.

If you know of interesting events happening this weekend that I've missed please let me know and I'll add them to the list. You can let me know by leaving a comment her or by sending an email to: info AT consuminglouisville.com.

Moxie Letterpress has put together a great opportunity for combining holiday shopping, art buying and poetry appreciation at the Butchertown Market on Friday November 23.