Hozier Returns With New EP 'Eat Your Young'
The three-song EP marks Hozier’s first official offering of new music since his 2019 sophomore album Wasteland, Baby!, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart. Featuring songs lifted from Hozier’s forthcoming full-length album Unreal Unearth due later this year, Eat Your Young touches on the album’s exploration.
Kentucky Novelist Has A Banner Summer
University Press of Kentucky author Crystal Wilkinson's novel, The Birds of Opulence, has been named the winner of the 2016 Appalachian Writers Association's Appalachian Book of the Year for Fiction. The multigenerational novel follows four generations of women in a bucolic southern black township as they live with and sometimes surrender to madness. This marks the fourth award The Birds of Opulence has won, including the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, the Weatherford Award for Fiction, and the Judy Gaines Young Book Award.
Capstone Collection Named Appalachian Poetry Book Of The Year
University Press of Kentucky author and former Kentucky Poet Laureate Jane Gentry (1941–2014) has been named the recipient of Appalachian Writers Association's 2017 Appalachian Book of the Year for Poetry for her posthumous collection The New and Collected Poems of Jane Gentry, edited by Julia Johnson. The AWA's mission is to recognize and promote writing about the Appalachian region. They work to celebrate writers who are living or have lived in the Appalachian region and those who have significant Appalachian connections through heritage or scholarship. The AWA currently gives out three annual Book of the Year Awards, one each in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
36th Annual Kentucky Book Fair Set for Lexington This Weekend
Now in its 36th year, the Kentucky Book Fair presented by Kentucky Humanities will be held from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm Today, November 18, for the first time ever at the Alltech Arena at the Kentucky Horse Park, 4089 Iron Works Parkway, Lexington, KY.
36th Annual Kentucky Book Fair Set for Lexington This Weekend
Now in its 36th year, the Kentucky Book Fair presented by Kentucky Humanities will be held from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm Saturday, November 18, for the first time ever at the Alltech Arena at the Kentucky Horse Park, 4089 Iron Works Parkway, Lexington, KY.
Unique Kentucky Voice and Former Poet Laureate's Collected Work Hits the Shelves
Jane Gentry (1941-2014) was a consummate poet, beloved and influential teacher, a mentor to generations of young writers, Poet Laureate for the Commonwealth from 2007-2008, and a unique Kentucky voice. Alternately startling and heart-wrenching, The New and Collected Poetry of Jane Gentry offers a valuable retrospective of the celebrated poet's work.