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Sarabande Books presents the Four Short Story Writers of the Apocalypse at 21c [Books]

Sarabande Books presents the Four Short Story Writers of the Apocalypse at 21c
Grab a shovel and prepare thy shelter! Sarabande Books presents a reading of reckoning at this month’s 21c Reading Series with the Four Short Story Writers of the Apocalypse. The book bomb drops tonight, Monday, May 21st, at 7:30pm.

The end is nigh.  Quickly approaching on swift wings, the looming Apocalypse breathes its wild, gypsy breath into the shivers of our spines.  We cannot escape the fierce plunging of hooves into the Earth, the raw, iron might of Death’s steely scythe.  Humble pawns in the dance of our own finite bodies.  The end is nigh – tonight, actually.  Bring your rations and get ready for a hearty literary grenade.  Sarabande Books presents the Four Short Story Writers of the Apocalypse at tonight’s 21c Reading Series. 

Sarabande Books presents poets Nikky Finney and Bruce Smith tonight at 21c [Books]

Sarabande Books presents poets Nikky Finney and Bruce Smith tonight at 21c
Round out National Poetry Month at 21c Museum Hotel as Sarabande Books presents the poets Nikky Finney and Bruce Smith tonight at 7:30pm.

So.  Now I’ve followed in the footsteps of the great and troubled creative minds, taking my turn in preparation for my slowly simmering magnum opus.  And while I flexed the limits of sanity, my little Books corner has sat silent.  Instead, I wrote some very nice poetry and cried during Art Therapy.  And though not every gifted literary soul need suffer the pain of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and legally-granted chemical happiness, it does add a certain flair to the persona.  As Nat

Local author, Kirby Gann, brings his latest release to Carmichael’s [Books]

Local author, Kirby Gann, brings his latest release to Carmichael’s
Author, teacher and Sarabandista, Kirby Gann, will share his latest literary release, ‘Ghosting’, tomorrow afternoon, Saturday, April 21st at Carmichael’s Bookstore. Stop by at 4pm – you’ve got hours to kill before all that nonsense at the waterfront.

So.  Apparently there is some big hullabaloo concerning the river, a bridge, drunken citizens and bad music all culminating in some brightly-colored – and crazy loud like…“thunder” they say – lights.  Apparently.  Apparently it’s tomorrow.  And while I – as I’m sure continuing readers can guess by now – do not really understand the appeal of hours spent milling around on a blanket sipping on lukewarm contraband bud-light, I can appreciate the gravity of standing up to this massive scheduled merriment and proclaiming

Stanza Support: Louisville poet, Jeffrey Skinner, presents his self-help poetry memoir at Carmichael’s [Books]

Stanza Support: Louisville poet, Jeffrey Skinner, presents his self-help poetry
Louisville poet, professor and Mr. Sarabandist-O himself, Jeffrey Skinner, brings his latest release, ‘The 6.5 Practices of Moderately Successful Poets: A Self-Help Memoir’ to Carmichael’s Bookstore this Thursday, April 5th, at 7pm.

Are you a starving artist?  Do the pages of your life’s work stare at you with a blank, slightly sinister eggshell grimace that taunts the dry, rattling bones of your creative spring?  Can no steroid cream cure your ailments?  Is there no semi-precious demi-god that $59.99 and a VISA can summon on Sybil’s command?  Allow my violin of sympathy to play for you, my friend.  As National Poetry Month waxes gently in this merry Spring, many of us languishing in our own personal pits of prose despair can only sneeze mournfully as poetry’s pollen

Penguin Perfect: Sarabande Books presents poets Martha Rhodes and Sarah Gorham at the 21c Reading Series [Books]

Penguin Perfect: Sarabande Books presents poets Martha Rhodes and Sarah Gorham a
Winter may now be officially over, but nothing can stop 21c’s famous, flamed-colored, frigid-weather, feathered friends (now THAT was an alliteration! Boo ya!) from flexing their poetry wings. Sarabande Books hosts its monthly Reading Series with poets Martha Rhodes and Sarah Gorham this Monday, March 26th, at 7:30pm.

There are a great many reasons why one should completely ignore “hype”.  First of all, it is this writer’s opinion, that Hype holds a gentle hand with Hysteria (ok, let’s be fair, it’s usually squeezing fingers into purple oblivion).  Hysterics rarely lead anywhere rosy, even if the healthy pump of fight or flight possessed well-intentioned roots.  So.  While the multitudes shake off a Hunger Games hangover this weekend, save your sanity for Monday.  Why Monday?  Because Monday night is your monthly dose of Penguin Poetry Pandemoni

Sarabande Books presents Adam Day and Michael Jeffrey Lee at the 21c Reading Series [Books]

Sarabande Books presents Adam Day and Michael Jeffrey Lee at the 21c Reading Ser
Your favorite Red Penguins are getting gussied up for poetry night. Head out tonight, Monday February 27th, for Sarabande Books’ monthly poetry series. Poets Adam Day and Michael Jeffrey Lee will unleash their words starting at 7:30pm.

As the winter winds to a quiet (seriously, it was 70 degrees last week…) close and the days grow to accommodate our diurnal natures in a gray and glorious light, many of us will soon be out on the prowl to lubricate our social lives.  With our soft, tropical bodies, most human animals tend to favor the warm breezes and sultry nights that accompany the evening glows of spring and summer (I am not generally one of these people; I am cold and aloof.  You wouldn’t like me).  Spring makes people twitterpated – poetic, blithe and bonny – and while our

Sweet Stanzas: Sarabande Books honors Flo Gault Student Poetry Prize winners at annual Pie Party [Books]

Sweet Stanzas: Sarabande Books honors Flo Gault Student Poetry Prize winners at
Rising poetic talents from colleges throughout the state were honored this past Sunday with a round of prize money, applause and – of course – pie at Sarabande Books’ 2012 Pie Party.

There are few things in this mortal life that rival the richness of the written word.  The elegant draping of stanza and meter, the quiet metaphor, the linguistic aplomb of syllables, the mouth feel of a particularly decadent alliteration.  We can wax poetic about the poetic poetry of poetry until we are blue in the face – blue like blueberries.  But at the pinnacle of human creation there stands only one other shining beacon of achievement that grandly proclaims the mankind species as set apart from our lesser mammalian brethren.  You know of what I s

Penguins and Poetry: Sarabande Books kicks off the 21c Reading Series with poets H.L. Hix and Kate Northrop [Books]

Penguins and Poetry: Sarabande Books kicks off the 21c Reading Series with poets
It’s time to dust off your poetry shoes and don your favorite literary festoons! The 2012 season of Sarabande Books’ 21c Reading Series starts tonight at 7:30pm!

The first month of the New Year is winding to a sleepy-eyed close; most folks have long since shook the Holiday hangover and found solace in the quiet lull following a freshly-minted year. But let us not grow bland as we settle into a comfortable grind! After a healthy Holiday hibernation, Sarabande Books’ 21c Reading Series is bright-eyed, bushy-tailed and ready to spice up your Monday nights once more. The 2012 series premiere starts tonight at 7:30pm, and poets H.L.

Review: Sarabande Poet, David Hernandez, delivers no pretenses with “Hoodwinked” [Books]

The author of two additional acclaimed collections of poetry creates simplistic perfection in his latest volume from Louisville’s Sarabande Books.

Poetry is often relegated to the dustiest shelves and the farthest reaches of our thoughts; a genre most readers slogged through begrudgingly in high school and promptly dismissed on the other side of the diploma.  Poetry is “stuffy” and “irrelevant”, perhaps even, dare I say it, “fussy”.  But these stereotypes are true misnomers to the good name of The Poem, and deft poets, such as David Hernandez, easily vanquish such tarnishes.  Hernandez’s latest collection of poems – published by Louisville’s own Sarabande Books &ndas

Review: Caitlin Horrocks’ "This Is Not Your City" challenges the psyche [Books]

The Short Story gets a raw and fearless revamp from Horrocks’ first collection of short stories published by Louisville’s Sarabande Books

When prowling through the aisles of a bookstore, on the hunt, it is easy to become mislead.  Prominent displays feature an alluring array of colorful covers and beguiling titles, innocently situated to whet your appetite and ensnare your senses.  I have been caught in this marketing trap numerous times, my friends.  Lured into some fantasy by my own overactive faculties and then woefully disappointed by the actual words on the pages.  But my foray into Caitlin Horrocks’ written world wa

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