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Maysville Festival of Books
To my list of the good things the Kentucky Community and Technical Colleges are doing for literature, you can add the Maysville Festival of Books. I just got back from the inaugural Festival and am astounded to report that I actually sold some poetry books, which is remarkable given that both my books are going on three years old and I’ve just about saturated the market. In spite of the weather and the fact that some of the big names, like Sharyn McCrumb, weren’t able to make it, the crowd was decent, friendly and in a buying mood. The Festival was small but efficiently run and all the staff were wonderfully friendly and ready to have fun. I met some old friends and, I hope, made some new.
All in all, not a bad way to spend a Saturday.
Steve Holt and I were the only poets there. Organizer Garry Barker is a poet, but he wasn’t selling books.
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