Sherry Chandler

Evening with Poets

Kudzu, the literary magazine of the Hazard Community and Technical College will roll out its 2006 issue with an

Noted poet, playwright and sworper, and the author of Buzzsaws in the Rain Jim Webb will be the Master of Ceremonies for the event.

The featured poet will be Kelly Norman Ellis, the associate director of the MFA in Creative Writing program at Chicago State University. Other readers will include poets whose work appears in the current issue of Kudzu.

Professor Ellis will also take part in the 10th annual Spring Writers Conference on Friday, April 21. The workshop is a free day-long series of concurrent workshops for writers in the region. Workshop leaders will be Kelly Norman Ellis, Gurney Norman, and Sena Jeter Naslund, the Poet Laureate of Kentucky.

The first workshop will begin at 10 a.m., the second between 1:00 and 1:30 p.m. and the third at 3 p.m. The workshops are free and open to anyone interested in writing.

The Conference is sponsored by Hazard Community and Technical College, and is funded in part by a grant from the Kentucky Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities

For more information, contact Scott Lucero at 606/487-3200 or 800/246-7521, ext. 73200 or email at Scott.Lucero@kctcs.edu.

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