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This Thursday, April 17, is the birthday of my sister-in-law of, can it be?, about 50 years. Happy birthday, Pete!
But it is also the Academy of American Poets’ Poem in your Pocket Day!
Celebrate the first national Poem In Your Pocket Day!
The idea is simple: select a poem you love during National Poetry Month then carry it with you to share with co-workers, family, and friends on April 17.
Poems from pockets will be unfolded throughout the day with events in parks, libraries, schools, workplaces, and bookstores.
The site has suggestions for celebrating the day and also a selection of pocket-sized poems you can print out and share.
Or, if you’re more technology minded, you can carry Mobile Poets on your pocket communicator of choice.
April 17 is also the date for Hazard Community and Technical College’s Evening with Poets, hosted by Jim Webb. This year’s featured poet is Diane Gilliam Fisher. Readings begin at 6:30 in the Stephens Library. Admission is free!
The 12th annual HCTC Spring Writers Conference is set for April 18, 10:00 to 4:30. This FREE writers conference will feature workshops by Crystal Wilkinson, Gurney Normal, and Diane Gilliam Fisher.
At the other end of the state, Kentucky Writers Conference 2008 returns to Bowling Green for it’s fifth year on April 17 and 18. Presenters include George Ella Lyon, Richard Taylor, Lynnell Edwards, and John Guzlowski (about whom more later).
The 10th annual Southern Kentucky Bookfest will be held on Saturday April 19 at the Sloan Convention in Bowling Green. My friend Georgia Green Stamper, author of You Can Go Anywhere, will be there along with other local notables, including Kentucky Poet Laureate Jane Gentry, former Kentucy Poet Laureate Richard Taylor, along with Leatha Kendrick, Fred Smock, George Ella Lyon, Lynnell Edwards, and some folks who write stuff beside poetry. Full list of authors here.
You can find links to web pages for these and many other Kentucky writers on my Ky’s Writers page.
In case you didn’t get signed up, here are the archives for Knopf’s Poem-a-Day 2008
And don’t forget Dead Mule’s Poets on the Odds.
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Asked to pick something as simple as a favorite color, I am apt to be catapulted off the Bridge of Death by the Old Man from Scene 24. About books I am as fickle as Gin (see comment to previous post). I can’t even claim to be serially monogamous because there’s genre to be considered. In mysteries alone, I have run through Agatha Christy, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, Rex Stout, John D. McDonald, Ross McDonald, Raymond Chandler, Dick Francis, Tony Hillerman, Edith Pargeter, Martha Grimes, P.D. James, Colin Dexter, Ian Rankin, and now I’m looking to James Lee Burke.
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