The InKY reading series returns tonight with an evening of Appalachian poetry, essays and music.
Erik Reece is the author of Lost Mountain: a Year in the Vanishing Wilderness, a
groundbreaking work of literary nonfiction that exposes how radical
strip mining is destroying one of America’s most precious natural
resources and the Appalachian communities that depend on it. He teaches
writing at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. His work appears in
Harper’s, Orion, and The Oxford American, among other publications. He was the recipient of the Sierra Club’s David R. Brower Award, and his Harper’s story on which Lost Mountain
is based won the Columbia University School of Journalism’s 2005 John
B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism.Doug Van Gundy is the author of A Life Above Water,
a collection of poems that examines both the natural and human worlds
and explores the boundaries between the two. Van Gundy is also an
accomplished fiddler, with an old-time Appalachian style and repertoire
particular to his native West Virginia.Singer/songwriter Sarah Elizabeth recorded her newest album, Don’t Die Yet, immediately
upon returning from the Sacred Black Hills of South Dakota where she
spent a great deal of time on the Sioux Reservation. An accomplished
solo artist and multimedia collaborator, Sarah was the keynote speaker
and featured performer at Ohio University’s 8th Annual Women of
Appalachia Conference in 2006.The Fall 2008 season will also feature New York Times bestselling author Susanna Sonnenberg, author of the memoir Her Last Death, and Larkspur Press poets Frederick Smock and Rebecca Gayle Howell.
A full list of writers and musicians is available at inkyreadingseries.com/season.htm
Open mic at 7:00
Music at 7:30
Featured readers at 8:00
Free
The Rudyard Kipling (home to one of PETA’s 10 favorite vegan pizzas by the way)
422 W. Oak Street
Louisville, KY
September 12th, 2008 at 9:11 am
Thanks, Michelle! It’s going to be a great night, y’all come!