InKY Press: resources and clips

You can find bios and photos for this month's show here, as well some high-res photos from past shows.

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April 10, 2009 — Drop in, connect with 'Pocket' event to celebrate National Poetry Month: InKY artists tap shared humanity (The Courier-Journal)

March 13, 2009 — Poetics at the Rud (The Courier-Journal)

February 8, 2009 — High School Journal photo gallery (Metromix/Velocity Party Crasher)

February 3, 2009 — InKY benefit will mine teen angst (The Courier-Journal)

November 11, 2008 — Series director Erin Keane interviews Susanna Sonnenberg for Velocity before her November 2008 InKY appearance.

Next show: Fiction on May 8

Featuring fiction readings by:

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Louisville nativeTania James is the author of Atlas of Unknowns, her debut novel recently published by Alfred Knopf. A graduate of the Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts, she studied filmmaking at Harvard University and received her MFA in fiction from Columbia University. Her story "Aerogrammes," published in One Story, was selected as one of the 100 Distinguished Stories of 2008 by Best American Short Stories. Read the recent Courier-Journal article about James and her work.

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Thomas Jeffrey Vasseur is the author of Discovering the World: Thirteen Stories and Touch the Earth: An Aftermath of the Vietnam War. He has received a Utah Fiction Award, a North Point Fellowship, an NEH Grant to UC Berkeley, and is a two-time finalist for Georgia’s Townsend Award for fiction. A native of Kentucky, he graduated from Transylvania University with a degree in English and Philosophy and received a Ph.D. in literature from the University of Utah. He teaches in the English department at Valdosta State University and is the former MFA coordinator at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Photos of Past Shows

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April 8, 2005

Kentucky poet and Eastern Kentucky University professor Frank X Walker reads from Black Box, at the April 2005 InKY Poetry Month celebration. Photo by Erin Keane

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April 8, 2005

Montana poet and Spalding University MFA in Writing faculty member Greg Pape reads from his most recent book, American Flamingo, at the April 2005 InKY Poetry Month celebration. Photo by Erin Keane

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February 11, 2005

SafeCracker guitarist Justin Eslinger at the February 11, 2005, InKY First Birthday Party. He would like very much not to rock no college town no more, if it's all the same to you. Photo by Erin Keane