Thursday, April 30, 2008 • 6:30 p.m.
Stephens Library, HCTC, Hazard, KY
Admission: Free

This poetry reading celebrates the publication of Kudzu, HCTC’s literary magazine. The emcee for this event is poet, playwright, and swarper Jim Webb. Writers who have poems in “Kudzu” will read and the guest poet is Mitchell Douglas. Mitchell L. H. Douglas’ poetry appears in “Callaloo”, “Crab Orchard Review” and the anthologies “The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, America! What’s My Name?” and “Zoland Poetry Volume II”. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2006 and named a finalist for the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize in 2007. A founding member of the Affrilachian Poets, Cave Canem Fellow, and Poetry Editor for “PLUCK!: the Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture”, his debut collection, “Cooling Board”, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press. Douglas will also lead three poetry writing sessions at the 2009 Spring Writers Conference. The conference is May first and will also have sessions lead by fiction writer Gurney Norman and horror writer CS Johnson. For more information go to www.myspace.com/eveningwithpoets or www.myspace.com/kudzumagazine