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BOOKSTORES
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Joseph-Beth Booksellers, located in the
Lexington Green shopping center off Nicholasville Rd. Kentucky's
largest independent bookstore. 859-2573-2911 www.josephbeth.com
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Morris Book Shop,
882 East High St in Chevy Chase, Lexington.
859-276-0494
www.morrisbookshop.com
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Black Swan Books,
East Maxwell near Woodland Ave, Lexington. The store's inventory includes many local
writers and Kentucky-related books, both vintage and new. 859-252-7255
BlackSwanBooks.NET
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Carmichael's Bookstore
-- Celebrating 33
years as Louisville's Independent
Bookstore --
2720 Frankfort Avenue, 502-896-6950
1295 Bardstown Road, 502-456-6950
www.carmichaelsbookstore.com
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The
Wild Fig Bookstore,
1439 Leestown
Road, Lexington. wildfigbooks@gmail.com.
859-433-1503 Former site of Morgan Adams Books.
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Larkspur
Press,
Monterey, Ky -- Books that are works of art, handset
in metal type and printed on a hand-fed press. www.larkspurpress.com
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Poor Richard's Books,
233 West Broadway, Frankfort 502-223-8018 http://poorrichards.indiebound.com/
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CoffeeTree Books,
Morehead. Eastern Kentucky's largest independent bookstore. 606-784-8364 www.coffeetreebooks.com
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Reader's Corner Bookstore, 2044 Frankfort
Avenue, Louisville. 20% off on most new book purchases.
502-897-5578.
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John Lackey's Homegrown Press Gallery & Studio,
574 N Limestone St (6th and Lime), Lexington. For more information see
www.homegrownpress.com.
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LITERARY
RADIO
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Accents,
a radio show for literature, is hosted and produced by Katerina
Stoykova-Klemer.
The show airs every Friday 2:00-3:00pm on WRFL 88.1 FM Lexington.
Past shows are archived on the web.
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From The Inkwell,
a new radio show hosted by Sheri L. Wright, is dedicated to all
things literary. Hear it Saturdays at 1:00pm EST on CHRadio 1650AM in
Louisville, Ky. Check it out live-streaming too at www.crescenthillradio.com.
And look for the show to soon be archived. Want to be a guest, have news,
event, original material you'd like to read on-air? Contact Sheri via the
show's website.
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Edin Road Radio,
an
internet radio show produced in Lexington, KY, airs on Tuesdays and Thursdays at
6:30pm. Listeners may
access the website for the live broadcast or may hear archived broadcasts
on-demand at
www.edinroad.com.
Authors interviews and discussion with host Jesse Coffey
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Janice Lee
hosts Featuring the Arts,
on WSKV 104.9 FM, Stanton, KY Tuesdays 5:00 til 6:00pm. The show also streams
audio at
www.wskvfm.com
Those interested in either being a guest or sponsoring the show may
contact
Janice Lee at 606-663-1011 or 606-663-2811. More information at
www.featuringthearts.com,
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WRITER'S
BLOGS
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John
Sparks
--
history, biography, theology, philosophy, prose, poetry, southern
rock, blues, bluegrass, and absurdity.
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Sherry
Chandler
-- commentary on social issues and literature.
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King's
Road --
an eclectic blend of history, pop culture, and literature from
author David King.
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Have
Passport, Will Ramble
--
notes
from a writerly life.
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Jim
Tomlinson
--
award-winning
writer of fiction discusses
the art and business of the craft.
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WRITERS'
GROUPS
(may
or may not be seeking new members)
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The
Writers Workshop Project (WWP)
meets monthly
in Louisille, 6:00-9:30pm. Phone 502-896-8480
www.the-wwp.com
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Dreambuilding
meets every first and
third Wednesday, noon until 1:00 at the Carnegie Center. For info ontact Katerina
Stoykova-Klemer. E-mail katerina.klemer@gmail.com
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Writers Bloc
40330,
meets on the third Monday of each month from 5:30 to 6:30 at the Mercer County Public Library meeting room. For more information, email
brightmyer@hotmail.com
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The Edmonton Kentucky Red Writers
meet every second Tuesday of the month at 6:30 pm at the Edmonton Kentucky Chamber of Commerce office.
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The Capital City Writers Roundtable
meets monthly in Frankfort. For
information contact Jerry Deaton jdeaton@me.com |
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Wilderness
Road Writers
in
Louisville. 502-235-5356.
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Tates Creek Writers' Group
meets the first
Thursday of each month, 6:00-8:30 pm, at the Tates Creek
Branch of the Lexington Public Library
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The
Harrodsburg/Mercer County Writers' Collective
meets
on alternate Thursday evenings from 6:30 until 8:30 in the Mercer
County Public Library conference room.
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Women Who Write meets the first
Thursday each month 6:30-8:30pm at the Highland Library Branch in Mid City
Mall, 1250 Bardstown Road, Louisville. 502-541-4670
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Friday
Writers Group
--
Louisville -- meets each Friday at 5:00pm at The Reader's Corner
Bookstore, 2044 Frankfort Avenue, in the Clifton neighborhood. (502)
897-5378 Toll-free 888-699-4682. Group contact 502-896-2612
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Paintsville
Main Street Writer’s Group
meets on the 4th Thursday of each month
beginning at 6:30pm at the Johnson County Library.
606-789-4355.
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Berea
Writers Guild
--
A small critique group
open to new members -- fiction
and non-fiction writers who may be at varying levels of experience
but are serious about pursuing their craft. Meets 2nd & 4th
Tuesdays at the Berea Library. 859-779-0793
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Central
Kentucky Writers,
for info e-mail Parker Owens at
parker(at)ciwss.com. Please put "writers group" in the e-mail subject line.
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Eagle
Creek Writers Group
--
Eagle Creek Branch Library, Lexington
859-231-5560
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Green
River Writers
--
Louisville
http://www.greenriverwriters.org
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Jackson
Christian Writers' Club
--
Vancleve
area. 606-666-5000 donnaw(at)kmbc.edu |
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Sisters in Crime
--
Louisville -- Ohio
River Valley chapter.
228-6657 www.sistersincrimeorv.org
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Louisville
Christian Writers
--
502-584-1367
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Bard's
Corner Writer's Group
-- Elizabethtown -- meets 6:00-8:00p.m. first
and third Monday of the month at the Hardin County Public
Library. Rvsshine1(at)aol.com http://thebardscorner.tripod.com/ |
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Writer's,
INK Jessica Swafford, Georgetown, KY
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The Owensboro Writers Group
meets on the third Saturday of each month at the Daviess County Public
Library from 11:00 – 1:00. Contact
Theresa Jewel Pinkston at t.j.pinkston.2007@gmail.com.
www.owensborowritersgroup.com/WordPress |
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The
Writers' Roundtable
--
Elizabethtown
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Frankfort
Writers Group
meets at Paul Sawyier Public
Library Wednesday evenings. Info from Rochelle Silvernail at
502-320-4373 or 502-875-8184.
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The Poezia Poetry Group
meets every first Thursday of every month at 7pm at Common Grounds Coffee House, Lexington. For info
e-mail Katerina Stoykova-Klemer at katerina.klemer(at)gmail.com
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The Poezia Prose
Group
meets every Tuesday
at 7pm at Common Grounds Coffee House, Lexington. For info e-mail Katerina Stoykova-Klemer at
katerina.klemer(at)gmail.com
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The Kentucky Book Mafia,
better known as the
KaBooM
Writing Collective,
Mary H. Alexander, Susan Christerson Brown,
Jan Isenhour, Leatha Kendrick,
Gail M. Koehler, Lynn Pruett, and Pam Sexton have written a collection of
essays, poems and fiction, When
the Bough Breaks, published
by Larkspur Press. |
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The
Written Word Writer's Group
meets
on
second and fourth Mondays at 6pm, at the
Hardin County Public
Library Branch in Radcliff, KY. Facebook
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| BOOK
FAIRS & FESTIVALS
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Kentucky
Book Fair,
November in Frankfort
kybookfair.com/
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Southern
Kentucky Book Fest,
April in Bowling
Green sokybookfest.org/
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Ohio
River Festival of Books,
April
in Huntington, WV.
Authors from OH, KY & WV.
ohioriverbooks.org/
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West
Virginia Book Festival,
October in Charleston, WV.
wvhumanities.org/bookfest/bookfest2.htm
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Southern
Festival of Books,
October in Nashville, TN.
www.tn-humanities.org/festival/index.php
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Buckeye
Book Fair,
Wooster, Ohio. November
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Spring
Literary Festival,
Athens, Ohio.
May
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ETSU
Celebration of Books and Authors,
Johnson
City, TN. April |
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Other Book Fairs
listed by STATE
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| KENTUCKY
LITERARY MAGAZINES |
| Heartland
Review, Elizabethtown Community and Technical College, http://legacy.elizabethtown.kctcs.edu/pubs/heartland |
| New
Madrid, Murray State University, http://www.newmadridjournal.org |
| Jelly
Bucket, Eastern Kentucky University, http://www.english.eku.edu/mfa/JB.php |
| Limestone,
University of Kentucky, http://limestonejournal.com |
| Louisville
Review, Spalding University, http://www.louisvillereview.org |
| Appalachian
Heritage, Berea College, http://community.berea.edu/appalachianheritage/ |
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The Licking River Review,
Northern
Kentucky University www.nku.edu/~litlang/publications/lickingriver.html
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| Lumberyard
Magazine, www.lumberyardmagazine.com |
| Pegasus,
Kentucky State Poetry Society www.kystatepoetrysociety.org/pegasus.html |
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WRITERS' RETREATS
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PenHouse Retreat Center
is
now open -- a place for rest and creativity. http://normandiellis.com
PenHouse is a spacious two-story 120-year-old country home built by Robert and
Eliza Penn in a horseshoe bend of the Elkhorn Creek in northern Franklin County.
PenHouse is the perfect place to write, to host book parties and readings, to
offer workshops or attend them. For reservations or more information
e-mail ellisisis@aol.com
or phone 502-352-7503.
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The
ArtCroft Foundation,
a
non-profit organization benefiting creative individuals and the community, is
located on 400 acres of rolling hills near Carlisle, Kentucky. ArtCroft’s
Residency Program hosts artists, writers, musicians, and other creative people
for one to four weeks, working at their chosen craft in the inspiring and
welcoming wilderness. ArtCroft’s Kentucky Writers Collection, an extensive
library housed on the farm, is available for use by local ArtCroft members. For
more information on ArtCroft, to apply for a residency, become a member, or to
make your tax-deductible donation to support their programs, visit www.ArtCroft.org.
Further info at 859-473-0552.
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LITERARY
SERVICES
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Mary O'Dell
offers critiquing of poetry or prose ($1 per
page). Send work to Mary.Odell@insightbb.com
or by standard mail to Mary O'Dell, 103 Logsdon Court, Louisville,
KY 40243. For individual or small group mentoring, contact
Mary O'Dell by e-mail, US mail or phone (502-245-4902 or 502-552-9578).
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Author Sheri L. Wright now offers editing services, mentorship
and leads workshops to help you fine-tune your writing and literary
direction at a reasonable cost. Contact Ms. Wright at kasperfriend@yahoo.com
for rates and visit her website for her BIO and literary credentials at
www.scribblingsandsuch.com.
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LITERARY
LINKS
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Kentucky
Literary Directory
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Opportunities for Writers
--
Kentucky Arts Council. http://artscouncil.ky.gov
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BookFinder.com
Want to purchase an obscure book or any book?
This is the place.
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Kentucky
State Poetry Society
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Academy
of American Poets Literary Map
Literary
events in each state
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Book
Sales in Kentucky
booksalefinder.com/KY.html
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Poets&Writers
grants and awards
announcements.
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Literary
Events in the South
http://southernscribe.com/
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State
Poet Laureates
www.loc.gov/rr/main/poets/current.html
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WRITING
CONTESTS
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Kentucky
State Poetry Society
--
poetry contests for students and adults.
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Georgetown
Review
--
magazine
and contest guidelines
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Green
River Writers
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Heartland
Review
--
see website
for guidelines.
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KCTE/LA
--
student writing contests
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BOOK
DISCUSSION
&
READING GROUPS
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Book
Talks
at
the Pikeville Public Library
meets
at 5:00pm on alternate Mondays. For more information, contact
Charlene Hopkins at 606- 432-1285 or e-mail
charlene(at)pikelibrary.org.
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Coffeetree Bookstore
in Morehead
hosts a variety of reading groups
for readers of various ages and interests. Give them a call for
information 606-784-8364.
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Second Monday
Book Club
meets the second Monday of each month at
Madison County Public Library, 319 Chestnut Street, Berea. The
club meets from 6:30 to 7:30
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Warren
County Public Library
&
Bob Kirby Branch,
Bowling Green, 270-781-4882,
ext. 223
for
information or e-mail
Marilyn Mattingly marilynm@warrenpl.org
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Louisville
--
You
are invited to join a book
discussion group at A Reader's Corner Bookstore.
Sundays. For further info contact John Boyd at Latin(at)jviolin.net
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READING SERIES
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InKY Reading Series
(second
Friday) Louisville
www.inkyreadingseries.com
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Second Sunday
in Frankfort
at the Coffeetree Cafe and Poor
Richard's Bookstore (except during summer) 502-223-8018 e-mail
PRBook(at)aol.com
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holler poets
series
--
monthly
poetry and music series started in may 2008 by Lexington poet eric
sutherland to provide a venue for Kentucky writers to showcase their
talents and to provide a place for fans of the word to come together
in celebration as a community. www.myspace.com/hollerpoets
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Morrison
Gallery Poetry Series
Elizabethtown Community College (except during
summer) e-mail mick.kennedy(at)kctcs.edu
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Third
Tuesday Coffeehouse in Owensboro at Woodward's in the RiverPark Center. (except
during summer) e-mail david.bartholomy(at)brescia.edu
270-686-4203
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 A
Dance
in the Street (2012)
by Jared Carter, $15.00.
"Critics agree that Carter deserves a place among the
American poetic elite of the last twenty years." —Timothy J.
Deines.
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 Guitars
of the Stars
(2012) by Tom
Chandler, $15.00. New and selected poems from Rhode Island's
Poet Laureate emeritus.
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 The
Lily of the West
(2012) by Robert
Cooperman, $15.00. Narrative poems tell the life story of
"the Lily of the West," from Lexington to Europe and back to
Louisville.
|
 The
Poems of Wing Lei (2012) by Alex Grant,
$15.00 Ninth century China comes alive in the poems as the
reader travels the countryside with wandering poet Wing Lei..
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 Hip
Poetry 2012 (2012) Editors Mitch Waldman,
Diana May-Waldman, and Joe McEvoy. $17.00.
|
 The
Lives We Live in Houses
(2011) Pauletta Hansel. $15.00. "Hansel’s
poems surprise us with fresh images and with a voice that moves
between what William Blake named the voices of innocence and
experience." ---Rebecca McClanahan
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 The
Frogville Skits: A Dozen Soggy Froggy Plays for Children
(2011). Steven Cope. $16.00
Children will revel in acting out these simple
dramas which encourage costuming, clowning and physical acting.
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 Each
Breath I Cannot Hold (2011)
poems by George Eklund. $15.00. "These poems have
an original and elemental quality — metaphor used not to tell a
story, but to create a mood or a fertile state of mind in which the
story blooms a priori." ---Charlie Hughes
|
 Horsefeathers:
Stories From Room 241 (2011)
edited by Ed McClanahan and Scotty Adkins. $15.00. The wry
McClanahan's touch is evident in this collection of stories from his
University of Kentucky writing workshop and room 241.
|
 Petty
Offenses & Crimes of the Heart
(2011) by Mitchell Waldman. $16.00. Threads of danger and
emotional trauma run through the stories in this collection.
In crime, love, marriage, or friendship, it's the little things that
matter most. It's the small betrayals or mistakes that often result
in our downfall.
|
 Going
West
(2011) by Normandi Ellis. $16.00. Short stories that
stories have a lyric fantastical quality. If these stories were
fairy tales, there'd be no Prince Charming or knights in shining
armor; Normandi would be writing empathetically about the
dysfunctional family of the troll beneath the bridge.
|
 Sentences
& Bills: 1917 (2011)
by Joe Napora. $15.00. These incisive and startling
poems to cast fresh light on an important, yet almost forgotten, era
of our Nation’s history.
|
 Cave
Dweller (2011)
by Robert Cooperman. $15.00. Narrative poems describe
the flight of Edgar Cantrell, fugitive from "justice" in
post-Civil War Colorado.
|
 As
If (2011) by
Russ Kesler. $15.00. "...in poem after poem Russ
Kesler gives us the details of a life keenly observed, intensely
imagined and freshly presented, a life in which it becomes hard to
draw the line between the ordinary and the extraordinary."
--- Greg Pape
|
 Weaving
a New Eden (2011)
by Sherry Chandler. $15.00. "Chandler
lifts Rebecca Boone out of the shadows of history to sturdy, quirky
reality and gives us glimpses of the other invisible women whose
lives make up the hidden half of history ... deserves a wide
readership."
--- Leatha Kendrick
|
 Rendering
the Bones (2011)
by Susan Lefler. $15.00 "The reader trusts
these poems, knowing they contain no empty air, rather the human
breath itself rendering the things of this world and their mysteries
through language."
--- Kathryn Stripling Byer |
 Crack
Light (2011) by
Thomas Rain Crowe. Softcover $15.00, Hardcover $25.00. "I
have always respected [Crowe's] work and dedication as someone who
has truly found both his place and his work, and recommend him
highly." --- Gary Snyder |
 Bound
(2011) by Linda Parsons
Marion. $15.00 "Bound to the human condition, bound
to tribulation and sorrow, but bound for glory at last.... This book
is brimful and overflowing. Come hungry and leave sated."
--- Fred Chappell
|
 In
Some Households the King is Soul (2011)
by Harry Brown. $15.00. "... a
unique combination of the experimental with old-fashioned country
idiom and wisdom."
--- Robert Morgan
|
 The
Daniel Boone Poems (2010) by
Joe Napora. $15.00. We learn in Napora's artful poems
what Boone might have thought and said about the wonder and terror
of the land that he helped to explore and subdue. |
 Mercy
in the New World
(2010) by Elizabeth Oakes. $15.00. Poems that vividly imagine
the life of Mercy Woodbridge, sister of Anne Bradstreet. "In
Mercy's new world, 'wild things flower first.' Rejected by the
Puritan community and her own family, Mercy flowers."
— Penelope Scambly Schott
|
 A
House of Branches (2010)
by Janisse Ray. Softcover $14.00, Hardcover $25.00. "The voice familiar to lovers of
Ray’s nonfiction is here – clear eyed and questing and newly
charged with lovely lyricism that honors the natural world and the
wisdom she finds in it. It is a pleasure to share this journey
and be enlarged by it." --- Beth Ann Fennelly, author of Unmentionables
Winner of the 2011 SIBA Book
Award
|
 Grassroots
(2010) by Jared Smith.
$15.00. "a compelling, haunting, and unforgettable
collection, one that I’ll be revisiting and referencing for years
to come."
--- John Amen, Editor of The
Pedestal Magazine
|
 The
Mad Reverend (2010)
by Steven Cope. $15.00. In this volume of poems Cope gives us
the startling view of one who, he says, is "not so much a person
as a state of mind." Cope's versatility and lyricism as he
explores our relationship with nature, while he seeks to understand
the holy and the profane, continue to amaze us. |
 Kentucky's
Everyday Heroes #2: Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things
(2010) by Steve Flairty, foreword
by Bill Goodman. $15.00. More accounts of our ordinary
neighbors who expend extraordinary effort for the improvement of our
community, state, and nation.
|
 Temptation
by Water (2010)
by Diane Lockward. Softcover $15.00. "Whether
mourning the loss of a lover’s touch or celebrating
steam rising from the slit of a baked potato, Lockward
embraces life’s
luscious, naked flaws and ecstatic turns,
surrendering to desire and what’s left in
'the wreckage of absence.'"
--- Dorianne Laux |
 Back
(2010) by George Ella Lyon.
Softcover $15.00. "The lives [Lyon] offers up in the chalice of
this book are a communion of spirits with all their laments and
stark truths, a part of the liquor of life from which we all
drink--bitter, ephemeral, beautiful."
--- Normandi Ellis |
 Body
and Blood (2010)
by Charlie Hughes. Softcover $15.00.
"thoroughly and lovingly human in its vulnerability and in its
passions."
--- Kathryn Stripling Byer
"[Hughes] holds us rapt with attention and
yearning."
--- Linda
Parsons Marion |
 Kaffir
Lily (2010) by
Bianca Spriggs. Softcover $15.00. "The poems are
carefully made, deeply felt. This is a book of gems, needing to be
read."
--- David Cazden, poetry editor of Miller's Pond |
 No
Matter How Many Windows (2010)
by Jeanne Bryner. Softcover $15.00. "The stories of
four women, beginning with great-grandmother Bertha White Stiles,
show us how we, too, can bear the blazing joy and pain of a world
full of 'risk and gamble.'"
--- Joyce Dyer
Winner of the Tillie Olson prize from the
Working Class Studies Association. |
 CROW,
The Children's Poems (2010)
by Steven Cope. Softcover $15.00.
More than 200 poems to delight, entertain, and educate youngsters
from 6 to 90 years. This popular
collection of poems from the versatile Cope is now in
softcover. |
 The
Appalaches (2010)
by Steven Cope. Softcover $15.00. Cope presents us with
one-thousand-and-one Appalaches, his name for these original and
witty aphorisms or proverbs. Enjoy these over many sittings, or
devour them all at once. |
 Jock:
A Coach's Story (2010)
by Stuart Warner. Softcover $16.00. A biography of noted
(or notorious) high school basketball coach Jock Sutherland. |
 Fink:
le dernier batelier (2010)
by Joe Napora. Softcover $15.00. A lyric account of of
the exploits of legendary Mike Fink, the last boatman, and the Mississippi River panorama. |
 A
Memory of Firelight: Selected Columns from The Lexington
Herald-Leader by
Paul Prather. Softcover $16.00. "[Prather is] an
honest and wise teacher who has an unusual talent for making great
truths accessible and understandable."
--- Marilyn Thompson, The Washington Post |
 Camden
Blues by
Joseph Anthony. Softcover $16.00. New York City
and Camden are the settings for this collection of stories. Anthony
demonstrates remarkable versatility as he writes in a variety of
voices, both male and female, of mothers and daughters, fathers and
sons, drinkers and lovers. |
 Appalachia's
Last Stand: The Appalachian Mountains Must Not Be Sacrificed for
Cheap Energy Delilah
O'Haynes et al. editors. This volume was compiled by a consortium of
Appalachian writers and photographers who explore the assault
on the Appalachian environment and its affect on the region and the
nation. |
 Everyone's
Daughter poems
by Marguerite Floyd. Softcover $15.00. "The beauty,
craft and courage of these poems ... deliver us to a place of
clarity and strength." ---Anne Shelby |
 Fear
of Moving Water
poems by Alex Grant. Softcover $15. "This is a book that
compels our reading, and our re-reading." --- Martin
Lammon, Arts & Letters editor
|
 The
Luminescence of All Things Emily by
Elizabeth Oakes. Softcover $15. A collection of 48
poems that portray the quiet, yet emotionally charged world of
Dickinson, her family, and friends. |
 Kentucky's
Most Hated Man: Charles Chilton Moore & The Bluegrass Blade
by John Sparks, softcover,
$20.00. At the beginning of the 20th century, Lexington
resident C.C. Moore was the best known infidel and atheist
in the nation. |
 Father
by Jeff Daniel Marion, softcover, $15.00. A poetic tribute not
only to Danny's father, but to fathers everywhere. Recipient
of Wind's Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize. |
 Backing
into Mountains by
Dorothy Sutton, softcover, $15.00. "With intelligence and depth of
spirit, [Sutton's poetry] bravely confronts and engages the
world." --Jane Gentry |
 Mothers
in All but Name by
Marguerite Bouvard, softcover, $15.00. Calls attention to the challenges
and triumphs of surrogate mothers and to the important role these
women play in nurturing children. |
 Root
for the Cubs: Charlie Root and the 1929 Chicago Cubs
by former
newspaper reporter and Pulitzer winner, Roger Snell. Softcover,
$17.00. Root is considered by many to be
the greatest of all Cubs pitchers, with the
most wins, games, and innings pitched in franchise history. |
 Hearts
in Zion: Steel, Coal, and an Appalachian Family
by Bruce Hopkins, softcover, $15.00. A history of an Appalachian family from
the end of the Civil War to the Great Depression, the rise and fall
of the great coal camps of eastern Kentucky. |
 Kentucky's
Famous Feuds and Tragedies
by Charles Mutzenberg, with a foreword by Kentucky historian James
Klotter, hardcover, $22.00. The first attempt at
critical and accurate reporting of the events of the era.
Reprint of this rare book. |
 Live
Like Larry by
Denny Trease, softcover, $15.00. A biography of Larry
Turner, victim of the flight 5191 crash, associate dean for
extension in the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture and
director of its Cooperative Extension Service. |
 Steam
in the Heart: Life and Times Along the Morehead & North Fork
Rails by Fred
Brown, hardcover, $22.00. History of the M&NF RR in Rowan and
Morgan counties. Recipient of Kentucky
Historical Society Award of Merit. |
 Dimming
Radiance by Dan
Stryk, softcover, $15.00. East and West come together in a
variety of poetic forms -- free verse and prose poems to Japanese
Tanka. |
 The
End of Eden: Writings of an Environmental Activist, by
Thomas Rain Crowe, softcover, $15.00. Includes illustrations
by nature artist Robert Johnson. Crowe presents a prophetic vision
of what we stand to lose through our disregard for the earth and its
finite resources, and a prescription to save it.. |
 The
Time I Didn't Know What to Do Next by
Stephen Rhodes, softcover, $15.00. Rhodes first poetry
collection, with an introduction by Leatha Kendrick. |
 Head
of the Holler
by Garry Barker, softcover, $15.00. Barker is a humorist
in the tradition of Andy Griffith and Loyal Jones. This is a
collection of his earlier newspaper columns |
 Burning
Heaven by Jim
Minick, softcover, $15.00. Poems about a farmer's wisdom, the
natural world and the author's place in it. |
 Birds
in the Tops of Winter Trees
by Ron Houchin, softcover, $15.00. |
 Craft-talk:
On Writing Poetry
(2008) Frederick Smock presents his own insights on the craft
of poetry --- a book that deserves a place on every bedside table. |
 People
Like Us: Stories by
Laura Weddle. Softcover $15.00. Stories of life in rural Kentucky
following the Great Depression. "Observant, truly beautiful
writing marks this fine collection." --- Lee Smith |
 Elizabeth
Madox Roberts: Essays of Reassessment and Reclamation
edited by HR Stoneback and Steven
Florczyk. Softcover $20.00. This is the first book-length
collection of critical essays to deal with the life and work of
Elizabeth Madox Roberts. |
 You
Can Go Anywhere: From The Crossroads of The World
essays by Georgia Green Stamper. Softcover $16.00
"Humorous, perceptive, and poignant, her essays are perfectly
crafted gems..." ---Gwyn Hyman Rubio |
 Persistence
of Vision poems
by C. Lynn Shaffer. Softcover $15.00.
Winner of the Morehead State
University New Writers Award. |
 Kentucky's
Everyday Heroes: Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things
by Steve Flairty, foreword by
David Dick. Softcover $15.00. Stories of your neighbors and mine,
ordinary people doing heroic deeds for family, community, and the
nation. |
 What
Space This Body by
J.C. Todd, softcover, $15.00. "...poems of arousal and
awareness, and, above all, praise." ---Eleanor Wilner. |
 A
House of Girls
by Thomas Rain Crowe.
Softcover $15.00. Autobiographical fiction in the form of a series of
short love stories with a twist. |
 America!
What's My Name? Softcover.
$15.00. The "other" poets unfurl the flag in this
multicultural collection of poetry edited by Frank X Walker. |
 Looking
Beyond the Mountains by
Steven Hammond. Softcover, $15.00. Mistakenly identified
at birth as a female due to a genital birth defect, Steven Hammond
lived for his first 25 years as a girl. |
 Days
of Anger, Days of Tears: The History of the Rowan County War
by Fred Brown and Juanita Blair.
Hardcover $25. The story of Kentucky's bloodiest feud with
more than 500 citations.
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 Kentucky
Waltz: Collected Short Fiction
by Garry Barker. Softcover $15 "... a
wonderful excursion into the heart and mind of modern
Appalachia," said novelist Sharyn McCrumb. Winner
of the Kentucky Literary Award in fiction. |
 Fresh-Fleshed
Sisters by
Normandi Ellis. Softcover $15. "[Ellis] is a genius
at concealing the most startling revelations within the most
ordinary moments of everyday life," said Ed McClanahan. Finalist
for the Kentucky Literary Award in fiction. |
 Where
Roots Echo by
Mary Caskey. softcover $15. "Mary Caskey's
first collection of poetry tumbles out and delights like a patch of
nasturtiums from fertile earth." --Christine Swanberg
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 To
Find a Birdsong by Billy C.
Clark. $20.00, hardcover. Part legend, part fable, this is
the story of how Nanabozho saved the muskrats, and how a wise old
muskrat at last found his land of birdsong. Finalist
for the Kentucky Literary Award in fiction. |
 Her
Secret Dream by Rita Sims
Quillen, $15.00. New and selected poems. "Quillen
writes wisely and eloquently of growing up, growing old, motherhood,
marriage, and the life of the artist.... these poems throb with
longing and loss..." ---Pamela Duncan
Appalachian Writers Association Poetry Book of the
Year. |
 To
Catch an Autumn by
Billy C. Clark, softcover, $15.00. -- a
collection of poems that reveal the author's knowledge of, and love
for, the land and waters of his home.
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 Catalpa
by George Ella Lyon, softcover, $15.00. Lyon's first
full-length collection of poems in a new edition with an
introduction by Robert West.
Appalachian Writers Association Book of the
Year.
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 Breathing
in Darkness
by Ted Olson. softcover, $15.00 ISBN 1893239543. An
insightful collection of poems attentive to the natural world, the
human heart, and life's light and dark places.
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 What
Feeds Us
by Diane Lockward. softcover, $15.00 ISBN
1893239578. Diane Lockward explores the feminine mystique in
her second full-length collection of sensual and imaginative poems.
Recipient of Wind's Quentin R. Howard Poetry
Prize.
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 Nobody
Knows, Nobody Sees: A Novel of Appalachia
by Bob Sloan. $16.00 ISBN
189323956X.
Love and murder in Hawkes County, Kentucky.
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 Cross
This Bridge at a Walk
by Jared Carter. $15.00 ISBN
1893239462. Poems about America and her people. Carter's
fourth collection of poems reaches out to the stories, myths, and
recollections of an entire continent.
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 Bright
Wings to Fly: An Appalachian Family in the Civil War
by Bruce Hopkins. $16.00 ISBN 1893239551.
The first of a trilogy that deals with three great periods of
Eastern Kentucky history.
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 Appalachian
Studies by Anne Shelby.
$15.00. ISBN 1893239527. These are poems of gentle humor and
sharp intellect. They will be of interest to every student of
Appalachian culture.
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 Poetry
and Compassion: Essays on Art and Craft
by Frederick Smock. $15.00. ISBN
1893239535. Imagine sitting in a pub and enjoying a
conversation with an erudite companion. You'll say, "I enjoyed
your company. The ale's on me."
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 The
Garden Girls' Letters and Journal
by Laverne Zabielski. $15.00. ISBN
1893239519. Marriage. Sex. Parenting. Art. Drugs.
Illness. Friendship. Feminism. This candid memoir explores it
all.
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 Girty
by Richard
Taylor. $15.00. ISBN 1893239500. Simon Girty's reputation
for bloody
exploits made him the most hated villain on the American frontier.
However, many who knew the man respected him for his
convictions, principles, and bravery.
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 Missing
Mountains: We went to the mountaintop but it wasn't there edited
by Kristin Johannsen, Bobbie Ann Mason, Mary Ann Taylor-Hall. $16.00
ISBN 1893239497 Thirty-five Kentuckians write against
mountaintop removal mining.
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 Five
Terraces
by
Ann Fisher-Wirth. $14.00 ISBN 1893239446
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 Peril,
Kentucky
by Joseph G. Anthony. $15.00 ISBN 1893239454
A tale of modern-day Appalachia.
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 Felt
Along the Blood
by Harry Brown, edited and with a foreword by
Steven Cope. $14.00 ISBN 1893239489
New and selected poems.
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 Lives
of the Poem -- Community and Connection in a Writing Life,
by Richard Hague. 309 pages.
$ 19.00, 1893239268 Softcover
$ 29.00, 1893239411 Hardcover
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 Silk
and Steel -- Stories of Strong Women,
by Jan Sparkman, 100 pages, ISBN
1893239373, $14.00
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Crow!
-- The Children's Poems,
by Steven Cope, 136 pages, ISBN 1893239365, Hardcover, $25.00.
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Moving
Out, Finding Home, by Bob Fox, 179
pages, ISBN 1893239322 $15.00. Essays on Identity, Place,
Community and Class.  |
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 Moon
Dogs -- poems
by Edmund August, 83 pages, ISBN 1893239403 $14.00
Finalist
for WKU's Kentucky Literary Award in Poetry.
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 Crossing
the Great Divide,
by Nancy Roberts, 151 pages, ISBN 1893239381
$14.00
Critically acclaimed short stories.
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 A
Storm Of Honey,
essays by Charles
Semones, 105 pages, ISBN 1893239314 $14.00
Notes from the Sabbath Country.
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 Among
Wordless Things,
by Ron Houchin, 91
pages, ISBN 1893239349 $14.00.
Appalachian Writers Association
Book of the Year Award in
Poetry.
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 Poetry
As Prayer,
edited by Denise
McKinney, 149 pages,
ISBN 1893239292 $14.00
Appalachian Women Speak.
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 The
Tongue,
poems by Tom Hunley,
89 pages, ISBN 1893239284 $14.00.
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 Home
Call
by Bob Sloan,
205 pages, ISBN 1893239306 $15.00.
A novel from the mountains of eastern Kentucky.
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 Tobacco--A
Literary Anthology,
edited by Edmund August, 137 pages, ISBN 1893239225, $14.00.
Fiction, poetry, and essays about a culture or way of life
that is destined to disappear.
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 Bearskin
to Holly Fork--Stories from Appalachia,
by
Bob Sloan, 148 pages, ISBN 1893239217 $14.00
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 Afternoon
in the Country of Summer,
poems
by Charles Semones, 160 pages, ISBN 1893239179 $14.00
WKU
Kentucky Literary Award in Poetry.
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