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Kentucky Writers Day, April 24
Keep a space clear on your calendar for Kentucky Writer’s Day, which this year is also inauguration day for our new Kentucky Poet Laureate, Jane Gentry. The ceremony is set for 10:00 a.m. EDT, Tuesday, April 24, at the Capitol Rotunda in Frankfort.
The event will include readings by past Poets Laureate Richard Taylor, James Baker Hall, Joe Survant and Sena Jeter Naslund.
Recipients of the Kentucky Arts Council’s 2007 Al Smith Individual Artists Fellowship in Literary Arts will be recognized.
And you’ll have a chance to hear Kentucky’s Poetry Out Loud winners, Trimble County High School student Dean Muir and Ohio County High School student Erica Martin. Poetry Out Loud is a National Recitation Contest sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation.
The ceremony, followed by a reception on the mezzanine level of the Capitol, is free and open to the public
Much is going on this week and next here in Kentucky in celebration of National Poetry Month. I suggest you keep an eye on The Kentucky Literary Newsletter for a full list of events.
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