LEAF LIT LIVE! SPOKEN WORD POETRY SALON #4
EGSO Happy Hour
Hey Everyone!
We hope that you’ll be able to join us when your schedules allow.
Coffee Hour will be every Wednesday at 10 a.m. EST.
Happy Hour will be on Fridays at 5 p.m. EST.
Please contact Amanda Salmon for registration link and passcode. You can save both links and passcodes for the rest of the semester.
Amanda Ellen Salmon
University of Kentucky
PhD Student — English Literature
Instructor — Writing, Rhetoric & Digital Studies
1302 Patterson Office Tower
amanda.salmon@uky.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
An Evening with Poet Li-Young Lee
An Evening with Poet Li-Young Lee: April 8, 2021 @ 7pm
Li-Young Lee is the author of five books of poetry, including his newest collection, The Undressing which is forthcoming in 2018. His earlier collections are Behind My Eyes; Book of My Nights; Rose, winner of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award; The City in Which I Love You, the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection; and a memoir entitled The Winged Seed: A Remembrance, which received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and will be reissued by BOA Editions in 2012. Lee’s honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Lannan Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, as well as grants from the Illinois Arts Council, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
Event co-sponsored by the Confucius Institute and the Gaines Center
Check out his Poetry Foundation feature for poems and more information:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/li-young-lee
(registration link below)
https://uky.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_H4mH8o1PTrChwbSjjpKr9A
An Evening with Madeline Ffitch:
An Evening with Madeline Ffitch: March 25, 2021 @ 7pm
Madeline Ffitch writes and organizes in Appalachian Ohio. She was a founding member of the punk theater company, The Missoula Oblongata, and is the author of the story collection, Valparaiso, Round the Horn. Madeline has been awarded residencies at Yaddo and at the MacDowell Colony. She is the author of Stay and Fight from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Check out more of her writings on her website:
https://www.madelineffitch.com/stories
(registration link below)
https://uky.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0LIsHzHFQeCdyU65kh8jVQ
UK's 26th Annual Black Women's Conference
The theme for UKY's 2021 Black Women's Conference is “Literature, Digital Media, and the Afrofuture.”
Dates: Feb 26th and 27th, 2021.
Register for all events here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/university-of-kentucky-26th-annual-black-w…
Feb 26:
10:30am: "The Future of Black Speculative Literature" Panel
6:00pm: Keynote address: Nalo Hopkinson
Feb 27:
3:00pm: Kishonna Gray and Regina Hamilton play "Hair Nah" and "Bad Hair". Community Gaming Event on Twitch
4:00pm: Keynote discussion with Momo Pixel, moderated by Kishonna Gray and Regina Hamilton
Extended Office Hours with Dr. Regina Hamilton
Hosted by Dr. Regina Hamilton of UK's Department of English and African American and Africana Studies program, Extended Office Hours invites faculty into the studio to discuss their paths to teaching. Sometimes the stories are personal, sometimes they're critical, but they're always important. In this first season of the show, episodes focus on what drew each faculty member to where they are today.
A&S Professor's ‘The Birds of Opulence’ Selected for 2021 Kentucky Reads
By Lindsey Piercy
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 6, 2021) — University Press of Kentucky author Crystal Wilkinson's novel, "The Birds of Opulence," has been selected by Kentucky Humanities for the 2021 Kentucky Reads.
A&S Students Take Prizes in 5-Minute Fast Track Competition Winners
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Dec. 16, 2020) — Ten University of Kentucky undergraduate student finalists recently competed in the final round of the third 5-Minute Fast Track Research Oral Competition.