SPEAKING UP. Poet Wendell Berry has a commentary today in the Louisville Courier-Journal opposing a plan for a new coal-fired power plant on the Kentucky River in Clark County. Click here to read it.
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BOOK ON THE WAY. Judith Victoria Hensley writes to say her collection of Appalachian English — “Mountain Folk: Mountain Wisdom” — is almost ready for the printer. We’ll post a link when it becomes available.
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HAYGOOD BOOK ON EBAY UK TOO. “Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson,” by former Gazette staffer Wil Haygood….I see it for sale in a variety of places, including ebay in the United Kingdom.
Click here to read the nytimes.com book review of another top-shelf book by Haygood, who continues to turn out great work, too, for The Washington Post.
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APR EXTENDS PRIZE DEADLINE. The American Poetry Review announces: “The deadline for the first annual Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize for Younger Poets has been extended to June 15, 2010.”
Click here to read guidelines.
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OTHER EVENTS.
– Downtown Charleston ArtWalk, at the Purple Moon and elsewhere, Thursday, May 20, 5 p.m. Click here for information.
– Sarah Einstein, May 20 at MAC, 107 High St., Morgantown, WV, 7 p.m.
– Vandalia Gathering, a celebration of WV’s traditional music and culture, May 28-30. Click here for information.
Tags: Charleston, Coal, KY, MAC, Morgantown, poet, poetry, Wendell Berry, WV
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