An Evening of Kentucky Poetry

Join us for an evening of Kentucky poetry featuring readings by Kathleen Driskell, James Gash, Michael Moran, and Trina Peiffer.

A book signing will follow, with copies available for purchase.

Kathleen Driskell is an award-winning poet and teacher. She is the author of six books of poetry including Goat-Footed Gods, a collection forthcoming from Carnegie-Mellon University Press. Her collection Seed Across Snow was a Poetry Foundation bestseller and Next Door to the Dead: Poems won the Judy Gaines Young Book Award. Her poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in many nationally known literary journals including The New Yorker, River Teeth, Appalachian Review, Shenandoah, Southern Review, Rattle and are featured online on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and in American Life in Poetry. Past chair of the AWP Board (2019-22), Kathleen is professor of Creative Writing and Chair of the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University, home of the nationally distinguished low-residency MFA in Writing Program.

James Gash studied English literature at the University of Kentucky, luckily enough during the tenure of Wendell Berry, Guy Davenport, and Ron Johnson. He proceeded to use that education as a farmer, in Owen County, for the last 45 years or so. Libations is his third volume of poetry published by Larkspur Press. For the last several years, he has been working on a novel, Buzzard Luck, about the vagaries of farming and raising kids in modern-day Kentucky.

Michael Moran is a retired psychiatrist who lives on a small farm outside of Frankfort, Kentucky, with his wife Vivian. Larkspur Press has published two volumes of his poetry, The Fallen World and Substantial Oatmeal, both illustrated by his daughter Molly.

Trina Peiffer is the author of the poetry collection Boy with a Yellow Lemon. She also serves as the Amachi Mentor Match Specialist for the Wanda Joyce Robinson Foundation. She enjoys writing, gardening, hiking, and watching her fabulous sons play sports.