Sherry Chandler

The Fourth Annual Harriette Simpson Arnow Conference on Appalachian Literature and Culture will be held April 7 & 8 at Somerset Community College. The theme is “A Patchwork of Words.”

Featured writers are Sena Jeter Naslund, Frank X. Walker, and Bob Sloan.

Tom Arnow will give a lunchtime presentation from his memoir about growing up as the son of Harriette Simpson Arnow.

For information contact:

Lynn Crabtree
Somerset Community College
808 Monticello Street
Somerset, KY 42501

606-451-6765

Just received the winter/spring 2006 Pegasus with poems by

• Wade Hall
• Jane Stuart
• Rebecca Bailey
• Brooks Carver
• Mary O’Dell

and many others, including one from me called “On the Eve of Leap Day,” which is a pretty nice little rhymed 4×4, if I do say so myself.

Also reviews of Robert W. Kimsey’s Paths from the Shawnee Spring (self-published), Elizabeth Howard’s Gleaners (Grandmother Earth, 2005), and Wade Hall’s The Kentucky Anthology (University Press of Kentucky) A subscription to Pegasus comes with membership in the Kentucky State Poetry Society. Submission is open. Guidelines here.

Let me take this opportunity to remind you all of the KSPS contest with 31 categories and over $2,000 in prizes. Open to all but special rates for members. Guidelines here.

Also our Annual Meeting and Awards Banquet at which we will celebrate our 40th anniversary, workshop with and listen to wonderful presenters, and give out awards for the poetry contest. It’s at the Blue Licks Battlefield State Park Resort, October 13 & 14. For reservations, call 800-443-7008 – mention the Kentucky State Poetry Society group arriving on October 13.

Reasonable event rates for the Saturday afternoon workshop and Saturday night banquet/reading are available for those who live locally and may not want to stay at the resort.