High School Journal: a benefit

Happy birthday to InKY!
We're celebrating our 5th birthday in February, and we're asking you to support the literary arts in Louisville and join us for our most heartfelt event ever. Read more!

January 9, 2009: resolve to read

Featuring performances by:

Kelly Moffett is the author of Waiting for a Warm Body to Fill It, a collection of poems published by Cinnamon Press in 2008. Her work has appeared in the Laurel Review, Hubbub, Phoebe, and New Writing, among others. She directs the creative writing program at Kentucky Wesleyan College in Owensboro, Kentucky.

Mickey Hess lives and writes in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, where he teaches at Rider University. He is the author of the memoir Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory and the collections One Thousand Pound Locket and El Cumpleanos de Paco. His stories, essays, and critical articles have been published in journals and magazines ranging from Punk Planet and McSweeney's to Critical Studies in Media Communication, and he served as editor of the Greenwood Press anthology Icons of Hip Hop: An Encyclopedia of the Movement, Music, and Culture.

Our musical guest in January will be Louisville singer/songwriter Adam Moseley.

Copies of these books and more will be available for sale at InKY thanks to Carmichael's Bookstore, Louisville's oldest independent bookseller. Carmichael's Bookstore celebrated its 30th anniversary as Louisville's oldest and largest independent bookstore this year. Both Carmichael's locations, one on Bardstown Road and one on Frankfort Avenue, are open seven days a week.

The Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, supports InKY, Inc., with state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.