Clearly these performances left an impression on me. We were so lucky to have such a great theater asset in the region where I grew up. So I’m excited that Carmichael’s is hosting a reading with contributors to a book that came out last year called World Premieres from Horse Cave: Plays by Kentucky Writers. Although I don’t remember seeing a lot of original theater at Horse Cave I’m beyond thrilled at the idea that people in rural Southern Kentucky can see original works by Kentucky writers in a great theater.

Among the playwrights whose work will be featured are: Liz Bussey Fentress, Larry Pike, Nancy Gall-Clayton, Betty Peterson, Jim Wayne Miller, and Billy Edd Wheeler. Their work will be read by a varied group of actors and fellow writers, in what is sure to be an entertaining, theatrical evening.

Tuesday, March 9th at 7 PM

Carmichael’s Bookstore
2720 Frankfort Avenue
Louisville, KY
(502) 896-6950

There will be visual art from Carlos Gamez de Francisco, performance art from Justin Doering, Music from Adventure, short films, a radio play and a reading from InKY featured writer Lauren Titus.

The Late Seating at Actors
Friday October 9, 2009
10:30PM
$10 or $5 with Actors ticket stub

Call 502-584-1205 or Buy Tickets Online
Historic Landmark, phone and online fees apply.

Actors Theatre of Louisville
316 W Main Street
Louisville, KY 40202

Call 502-584-1205.

The InKY Reading Series is excited to welcome Kentucky writer Jim Tomlinson, who will read from his new collection of stories, Nothing Like an Ocean, on Friday, September 11 at the Rudyard Kipling in Old Louisville. He will be joined by Louisville native Squire Babcock and Louisville singer/songwriter Brigid Kaelin. InKY performances are free and open to the public, and Carmichael’s Bookstore will be selling the featured books and related items.

 Jim Tomlinson lives and writes in Berea, Kentucky. His debut short story collection, Things Kept, Things Left Behind, won the 2006 Iowa Short Fiction Award. His work has appeared in Five Points, Shenandoah, Bellevue Literary Review, New Stories From The South 2008 and elsewhere. Jim is the recipient of a 2008 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship. His new book of stories, Nothing Like An Ocean, was published earlier this year by University Press of Kentucky as part of their Kentucky Voices Series.

 Squire Babcock is the author of The King of Gaheena, a novel. Raised in well-to-do suburban Louisville, he hit bottom in 1972 when he was arrested and jailed for possession of heroin. In the ensuing years, he worked as a ballroom dance instructor, farm hand, weigh-man in a cotton gin, hunting guide, pool table repair mechanic, small business owner, carpenter, free-lance journalist and blues drummer. In 1996 Kentucky Governor Brereton Jones pardoned Babcock’s heroin conviction. He currently is associate professor of English at Murray State University, where he has taught English and creative writing for 17 years and heads up the Low-Residency MFA Program in creative writing.

Our musical guest in September will be Louisville singer/songwriter Brigid Kaelin, a plucky redhead. Think Lyle Lovett meets Cole Porter, sung by Natalie Merchant — and played on the accordion. Witty lyrics, intelligent humor.  Part pop, part swing, part country, and all original, Brigid plays accordion, piano, guitar, musical saw, and she yodels on demand.

Copies of these books and more will be available for sale at InKY thanks to Carmichael’s Bookstore, Louisville’s oldest independent bookseller. Carmichael’s Bookstore celebrated its 30th anniversary as Louisville’s oldest and largest independent bookstore this year. Both Carmichael’s locations, one on Bardstown Road and one on Frankfort Avenue, are open seven days a week.

Friday May 8, 2009
Open mic at 7:00
Music at 7:30
Featured readers at 8:00
Free

The Rudyard Kipling
422 W. Oak Street
Louisville, KY

Line numbers for the David Sedaris book signing are available starting Monday June 1st (the signing itself is on June 21st). So be sure to stop in either Carmichael’s and get yours starting in June!

It’s bike night at Carmichael’s! We welcome University of Louisville
professor Matthew Biberman and his legendary Vincati motorcycle for a
talk on his new book, Big Sid’s Vincati: The Story of a Father, a Son,
and the Motorcycle of a Lifetime.

It is an entertaining,
informative, and also moving (pun intended!) tale of hard work, family,
and dreams-come-true. It’s also a fascinating look at a beautiful,
one-of-a-kind motorcycle hybrid.

Thursday May 21, 2009

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Carmichael’s Bookstore
2720 Frankfort Ave
Louisville, KY 40206
(502)896-6950

*Though I have recently become friends with a person who really loves motorcycles and since I’m so fond of this person I may have to rethink my current ambivalent stance on motorcycles. May rethink, not promising anything here.

The InKY Reading Series is excited to celebrate National Poetry Month with readings by Danville poet Lisa Williams and Indianapolis poet Chris Forhan on Friday, April 10 at the Rudyard Kipling in Old Louisville. Nashville-based singer/songwriter Korby Lenker will also perform. InKY performances are free and open to the public, and Carmichael’s Bookstore will be selling the featured books and related items.

In honor of National Poetry Month, InKY will distribute pocket-sized versions of poems by Williams and Forhan as part of the Academy of American Poets initiative “Poem in Your Pocket Day.” (More information: http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/406)

Lisa Williams is the author of Woman Reading to the Sea, which won the Barnard Women Poets Prize, and The Hammered Dulcimer, which won the May Swenson Poetry Award. She was awarded the Rome Prize in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004. She received her M.F.A. from the University of Virginia, where she was awarded a Henry Hoynes fellowship in poetry. Williams’ poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Orion, The Missouri Review, Measure, Virginia Quarterly Review and other magazines, Best American Poetry 2009, and The Best American Erotic Poems: 1800 to Present. Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, she is Associate Professor of English at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky.

Chris Forhan is the author of the poetry collections The Actual Moon, The Actual Stars and Forgive Us Our Happiness, as well as two chapbooks, x and Crumbs of Bread. His poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry 2008, Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry, The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology, Poetry, Paris Review, and many other journals and anthologies. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the Samuel French Morse Prize, and the Pushcart Prize, he teaches creative writing at Butler University in Indianapolis.

Our musical guest in April will be Nashville-based singer/songwriter Korby Lenker.

Friday April 10, 2009
Open mic at 7:00
Music at 7:30
Featured readers at 8:00
Free

The Rudyard Kipling
422 W. Oak Street
Louisville, KY

David Sedaris will be speaking at Carmichael’s so says the Courier. My question is are they going to block off Frankfort Avenue to accomodate all the people trying to hear the man speak? He’ll be there Sunday June 21, 2009 at 4PM. His non-mother-in-law is from here right? That’s exciting. No word yet on how to get your hands on the arguably too few precious tickets that will be available for this event. I’m hoping for some kind of Wonka-esque golden ticket kind of thing.

Jenny Lewis is going to be playing Headliners on July 6. I really loved her first solo album and am working on loving the second one. Love them both enough to probably pay for tickets to her show. I think you should too.

The Spring 2009 Axton Reading Series is pleased to announce that Lydia Davis, a fiction writer and translator, will read from her work on Thursday, April 2nd and will conduct a master class on Friday, April 3rd at the University of Louisville. Davis is the author of four collections of short fiction, including Varieties of Disturbance, a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award; and a novel, The End of the Story. Her work has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Poetry, and has been published in numerous journals ranging from The New Yorker to McSweeny’s. Davis is also the translator of avant-garde French novels, memoirs, and volumes of literary criticism, most recently, Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust, which received the French-American Foundation Annual Translation Prize. Davis was named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government for her fiction and translation, and in 2003 received a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship.

Reading: April 2, 2009 7:30pm, Bingham Poetry Room, Ekstrom Library, Belknap Campus
Master Class: April 4, 2009, 10:00am-12:00pm, Bingham Humanities 300, Belknap Campus

Consuming Louisville contributor Jay Garmon says Rainbow Connection takes “the common spec-fic trope of alternate universes inspired by popular fiction and turns it on its head.” I believe he also calls it “awesome.”

Harac will be signing books from 1PM-3PM.

A Reader’s Corner
138 Breckenridge Lane
Louisville, KY

The Calvino Prize is an annual fiction competition sponsored by the Creative Writing Program in the English Department of the University of Louisville and is awarded to outstanding pieces of fiction in the fabulist experimentalist style of Italo Calvino. The winner of the 2008 Calvino Prize, Helen Phillips, will read from her work on Friday, February 20th at 11:00am in the Bingham Poetry Room, Ekstrom Library, Belknap Campus. This event is free and open to the public.

Winner’s brief bio:
Helen Phillips’s work has appeared in The Mississippi Review, Small Spiral Notebook, Faultline, The Brooklyn Review, The L Magazine, The Hotel St. George Press Literary Magazine, and The Yale Literary Magazine, among others. She was a finalist in the recent Black Warrior Review, Iowa Review, Indiana Review, and Mississippi Review fiction contests, and for the 2008-9 Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center fellowship. In August 2008, she was a resident at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming. She received her BA from Yale and her MFA from Brooklyn College, where she now teaches undergraduate creative writing. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, artist Adam Thompson.