January 7, 2013 - 2:55pm
The author the book, ‘The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies?’, Jared Diamond will take center spotlight at the Kentucky Center for the Arts this Wednesday, January 9th, for an interview with author and anthropologist, Sarah Hrdy. It sounds fancy and fine.
I am going to build a tribe. It will be made of arms and legs and stomachs and faces. People with names will belong to these parts. And I will love them. And they will hopefully love me. And, somehow or another, we will function as a whole thing in this world. It...
January 3, 2013 - 3:21pm
Well, ok, by “inspiring” I mean bludgeons the young dreaming wordsmith with black humor and promises of mild starvation and heartache. But this is a good thing. Local poet Jeffrey Skinner takes a twist on creative non-fiction with the self-help memoir, ‘The 6.5 Practices of Moderately Successful Poets’. And I read it.
If I had a nickel for every word I wrote…Child, it’s a lot of nickels. You don’t even know. Enough nickels to make heaping cartoonish mountains of currency in unfathomably large caverns. It looks like glitter. Dunes of disco ball bits. Enough nickels...
December 28, 2012 - 11:49am
The library is a wonderful, kid-friendly place to ring in the new year.
This New Year’s Eve, head to the Main Library with your kids for a new year’s party. Celebrate the end of 2012 library-style. The fun begins at 2pm, is for all ages, and includes a craft.The Iroquois Library is also hosting a Toddler New Year’s Eve Dance Party, which starts at 10:...
December 28, 2012 - 11:47am
Here it is: my final Something To Say for 2012. And we’re going to launch it from the proverbial nest of Library events. Stop by the Louisville Free Public Library’s Main branch this coming Monday, December 31st at 2pm for a special New Year’s Eve party.
My hands are shaking a little bit. There might be a smidgen of the hot jelly making the prickly-pear points in my eyeballs. What feels rather like a mildly giant piece of wood is currently growing in the back of my throat. I can feel it shifting whenever I swallow.This doesn...
December 20, 2012 - 4:23pm
The world may be ending tomorrow (no, I’m not letting that go); you have practically zero holiday shopping days. Own it. Give literacy and buy local in the home stretch with Sarabande Books’ BOGO Winter Sale.
Haddaway is a poet. Wait. Don’t leave. Wait. Take my hand. It’s going to be fine. We will do this the right way, and it’s going to be full of grace. You must trust me.Haddaway (you know who he is). He’s written neither sonnets...
