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Friday, March 4 — University of Kentucky — A reading by Davis McCombs, Wendell Berry, and Barbara Kingsolver will be held in Memorial Hall on UK’s campus Friday at 7:30 p.m. The reading, which is free and open to the public, is part of a two-day symposium titled “Growing Kentucky.” The event is the latest in a series of symposiums that each year examine such subjects as food and arts, land use, food marketing, and environmental journalism. The symposium honors the life and work of Joy Bale Boone, Kentucky’s poet laureate from 1997-99, who knew well the state’s rural culture.
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This today from Lexington Art League
The Lexington Art League has lost one of its most dedicated, colorful, creative and genuinely special members with the death last week of Steve May. Steve was an award-winning photographer and teacher, an art connoisseur, a caring mentor, a dedicated volunteer, and true friend of many, many who had the pleasure of his company. A memorial service has been scheduled for this coming Friday, March 4, at 6:30 at Loudoun House. Steve and his family are in our thoughts and prayers.
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If you have a pretty good broadband connection, you might enjoy watching Strandbeest in action. If not, just go look at the photos of these strange plastic creatures that come to life in the wind on the beach.
Here is the squib from the site:
Since about ten years Theo Jansen is occupied with the making of a new nature. Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are used as the basic matierial of this new nature. He makes skeletons which are able to walk on the wind. Eventually he wants to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives.
The link is from Donna Marder.
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APRIL SELECTIONS FOR BOOKCLUB@KET
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April is National Poetry Month, and BOOKCLUB@KET is celebrating with a one-hour poetry special featuring books by five Kentucky poets:
T. Crunk’s Living in the Resurrection
Nikky Finney’s The World is Round
Jane Mayhall’s Sleeping Late on Judgment Day
Davis McCombs’ Ultima Thule
Frank X Walker’s Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York
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