Mark Jarman's Bone Fires is the winner of the 2011 Balcones Poetry Prize.
Lia Purpura's Rough Likeness is reviewed in The Kenyon Review.
Ryan Van Meter's If You Knew Then What I Know Now is a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award.
06-05-2012
Kentucky Great Writers Series
Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning
251 West Second Street
Lexington, Kentucky 40507
7:30 pm
Reading from You Have Given Me a Country and Same Sun Here
With Cynthia Ellingsen and Jeff Worley
ccll1@
(859) 254-4175
http://carnegiecenterlex.org/events/kentucky-great-writers-series/
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