An Evening of Poetry with Lee Pennington & Ron Whitehead

Join us for an evening of poetry featuring Lee Pennington and Ron Whitehead. A signing will follow the reading, with books available for purchase.

Lee Pennington is the author of 23 books including I Knew a Woman (1977), Thigmotropism (1993), and Appalachian Newground (2016) – each nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in poetry. He has had over 1,300 poems published in more than 300 magazines in America and abroad. His most recent book is Segovia’s Fingernail (2019), and his novel, Moment of the Butterfly, will be released by Hydra Publications in 2024. In 1983, Pennington was named a Poet Laureate by the Kentucky state legislature.

Ron Whitehead is a poet, writer, editor, publisher, professor, scholar, activist, and United States Beat Poet Laureate. He is the author of 30 books and 40 albums, and as a UNESCO Europe Writer-in-Residence, his work has been translated into 20 languages. Whitehead has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature, and he was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in the arts by the City of Louisville. At 73, he continues to perform and record with The Storm Generation and many others. His newest book, Tapping My Own Phone, was just released by the National & International Beat Poetry Foundation.