Second Sunday Reading Series

No admission fee

The Second Sunday Series for Sunday February 12 will feature three veteran poets: Kasia Pater (from Lexington poet via Poland), David Cazden (also of Lexington), and Louisville poet Lynnell Edwards. The readings begin at 3:30 at the Kentucky Coffeetree Cafe. No admission charge. There will be an open mike following the featured writers, and all are welcome to read a poem or simply come and enjoy others reading. Come out, have a cup of coffee or a beer, and hear some first-rate poetry.

Poets Katerina Stoykova-Klemer and Richard Taylor will co-host the event, and books by the featured writers will be available.

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Second Sunday Reading Series

The Second Sunday Series at the Coffeetree Cafe in Frankfort resumes on Sunday, November 13 at 3:30. In addition to the readings of Dave Harrity, A.D. Fallon and Chris Mattingly, there will be an open mike for anyone wishing to share poems with us.

Admission is free. Everyone is welcome to join us.

A.D. Fallon is Professor of American Literature and Poetry at Kentucky State University. She is also a musician. She received an MFA from University of Pittsburgh in Poetry and a PhD in 20th Century American Literature and Poetry from University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She has published poems in several magazines, and has published articles on E. E. Cummings and Lorine Niedecker. She grew up in Downers Grove, IL. She currently lives in Louisville, KY.

Chris Mattingly is the author of Ad Hoc and A Light for Your Beacon, both from Q Ave Press. He lives and works in Louisville, Kentucky. He holds an MFA in poetry from Spalding University. His poems have appeared in public-Republic, Margie: The Journal of American Poetry, Moonshot, The Louisville Review, and others.

Dave Harrity is a writer from Louisville. His writing has appeared in many magazines and journals including the L.A. Review, Ruminate, The Portland Review, and Copper Nickel. His chapbook, "Morning and What Has Come Since" (Finishing Line Press, 2007) was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a Kentucky Literary Award.

Chris Mattingly is the author of Ad Hoc and A Light for Your Beacon, both from Q Ave Press. He lives and works in Louisville, Kentucky. He holds an MFA in poetry from Spalding University. His poems have appeared in public-Republic, Margie: The Journal of American Poetry, Moonshot, The Louisville Review, and others.

A.D. Fallon is Professor of American Literature and Poetry at Kentucky State University. She is also a musician. She received an MFA from University of Pittsburgh in Poetry and a PhD in 20th Century American Literature and Poetry from University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She has published poems in several magazines, and has published articles on E. E. Cummings and Lorine Niedecker. She grew up in Downers Grove, IL. She currently lives in Louisville, KY.

Dave Harrity is a writer from Louisville. His writing has appeared in many magazines and journals including the L.A. Review, Ruminate, The Portland Review, and Copper Nickel. His chapbook, "Morning and What Has Come Since" (Finishing Line Press, 2007) was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a Kentucky Literary Award.

"I graduated from Atherton High School [in Louisville, Kentucky] in 1959. I went to the University of Kentucky where I majored in English, graduated in 1963 as an English major, and worked there with the campus literary magazine. At that time it was called Stylus. . . . From UK in 1963 I went to the University of Louisville, where I worked on a master's degree for a year in English. I graduated in '64, and I was not certain what to do at that point, so I was persuaded by my father to go to law school for the next three years at the University of Louisville Law School. I had a rather not-what-you-would-call-extensive law practice, in either duration or intensity. I clerked in law school for my father's law firm, and practiced nearly two months before giving up the practice of law.

Second Sunday Reading Series

The Second Sunday Series at the Coffeetree Cafe in Frankfort resumes this Sunday at 3:30 featuring poets Frederick Smock and Richard Taylor, both of whom have new books published by Accents Publishing of Lexington.

In addition to their reading, there will be an open mike for anyone wishing to share poems with us.

Admission is free. Everyone is welcome to join us.

"Frederick Smock is a smart, sensible, and witty guide who will lead you into the house of poetry and describe its many rooms. He is an insider, a poet himself, and a therapist who specializes in relieving the symptoms of poetry-phobia."
— Billy Collins

Frederick Smock is a poet-in-residence at Bellarmine University, Louisville, where he received the Wyatt Faculty Award in 2005. He has published three books of poetry with Larkspur Press, with individual poems in The Iowa Review, The Southern Review, Shenandoah, and many others. He is the recipient of the Leadingham Poetry Prize and the Jim Wayne Miller Prize for Poetry. Mr. Smock is married to the writer Olga-Maria Cruz.

"I graduated from Atherton High School [in Louisville, Kentucky] in 1959. I went to the University of Kentucky where I majored in English, graduated in 1963 as an English major, and worked there with the campus literary magazine. At that time it was called Stylus. . . . From UK in 1963 I went to the University of Louisville, where I worked on a master's degree for a year in English. I graduated in '64, and I was not certain what to do at that point, so I was persuaded by my father to go to law school for the next three years at the University of Louisville Law School. I had a rather not-what-you-would-call-extensive law practice, in either duration or intensity. I clerked in law school for my father's law firm, and practiced nearly two months before giving up the practice of law.

Second Sunday Reading Series

No Admission Fee

April's Second Sunday Reading Series welcomes poets Maureen Morehead, Eric Sutherland and Nana Lampton! Open mic will follow the readings by the featured authors, so please come ready to share your work, as well! The event will begin at 3:30 on 4/10 at KY Coffeetree Cafe (235 West Broadway Street, Frankfort, KY).

Second Sunday Reading Series

No Admission Fee

The second Second Sunday Reading Series reading will be Sunday March 13 from 3:30-5:30 at the Kentucky Coffeetree Cafe in downtown Frankfort.

The series welcomes Matthew Haughton, Bianca Spriggs, and Bobby Steve Baker. All will be reading from new books; all live in Lexington.

Open Mic will follow the readings by the featured writers, so please come share your work as well.

Matthew Haughton will read from Bee-Coursing Box, published by Accents Publishing.

Affrilachian poet and Cave Canem Fellow Bianca Spriggs is a freelance instructor of composition, literature, and creative writng. Her most recent book is Kaffir Lily, published by Wind Publications.

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