Molly Peacock at the Carnegie Center November 7, 2006

NEW BOOKS BY GREAT WRITERS: MOLLY PEACOCK
Thursday, Nov. 9
6:30 pm: Reading and book signing
7:30 pm: Workshop: The Poet’s Spoken Voice: Reading Poetry Aloud from Inside
the Poem

The Carnegie Center’s 2006-2007 New Books by Great Writers series will continue with a reading and workshop led by poet Molly Peacock, author of Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems and editor of The Private I: Privacy in a Public World. The reading and book signing are FREE and open to the public.
The workshop is $25; subscribers to the New Books by Great Writers series may attend this and as many forthcoming workshops as desired for a one-time discounted price of $100. Funded in part by the Kentucky Arts Council, the series will continue through spring 2007 with workshops and readings by former Kentucky Poet Laureate Richard Taylor, children’s author Andrea Cheng, Affrilachian poet Frank X Walker, poet and fiction writer Susan Richards, poet and essayist Anne Shelby, and current Kentucky Poet Laureate Sena Jeter Naslund, who will read alongside her brother, novelist John Sims Jeter. To subscribe to the series or learn more about this and other learning opportunities at the Carnegie Center, call (859) 254-4175 or visit
www.carnegieliteracy.org.

Erik Reece October 17, 2006

NEW BOOKS BY GREAT WRITERS: ERIK REECE AT THE CARNEGIE CENTER
Thursday, Oct. 19th

6:30 pm: reading and book signing - FREE and open to the public
7:30 pm: workshop: Using Investigative Journalism in the Lyric Personal Essay - $25; registration required The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning 251 West Second Street, Lexington

Author Erik Reece will continue the Carnegie Center’s 2006-2007 New Books by Great Writers series with a workshop and reading from LOST MOUNTAIN: A YEAR IN THE VANISHING WILDERNESS, his eyewitness account of mountaintop removal in Eastern Kentucky. Following a FREE reading and book signing, work directly with the author to explore techniques of nature writing, investigative journalism, and the lyric personal essay. The cost of the workshop is $25; subscribers to the New Books by Great Writers series may attend this and as many forthcoming workshops as desired for a one-time discounted price of $100. Funded in part by the Kentucky Arts Council, the series will continue through spring 2007 with workshops and readings by poet Molly Peacock, former Kentucky Poet Laureate Richard Taylor, children¹s author Andrea Cheng, Affrilachian poet Frank X Walker, novelist Susan Richards, poet and essayist Anne Shelby, and current Kentucky Poet Laureate Sena Jena Naslund, who will read alongside her brother, novelist John Sims Jeter. To subscribe to the series or learn more about this and other learning opportunities at the Carnegie Center, call (859) 254-4175 or visit www.carnegieliteracy.org,