Literary T(w)een Scene with Teen Howl Series and Carnegie Center

Presented by The Kentucky Book Festival and Kentucky Humanities, this program is part of the main festival on November 2.

Founded November 2011 by Elizabeth Beck and Jay McCoy, Teen Howl 2.0, under new leadership of former Teen Howl Poets, Jessica Taylor and Hunter Nelson welcome poets aged 13-20 to Third Street Stuff & Coffee located on 257 N. Limestone  in Lexington, Kentucky at six p.m. Each month, a Teen Howl Poet is featured after a lively open mic performed by the wonderfully wild and talented teens of Kentucky. To launch some evenings’ nights of poetry, a celebrity adult guest reader is invited to share his/her words. Talented poets including Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, Ada Limón, Maurice Manning and Richard Lawrence Taylor have graced the Teen Howl’s Stage. Other nights, the kids fill the bookstore with so many words, they raise the roof.

The Carnegie Center for Literacy & Learning is a 501(c)(3) non-profit community learning and literary arts center with local, state, and national awards for programming excellence. The Center offers seasonal classes in writing, publishing, and languages; tutoring for students grades K-12; vibrant youth and family programs and exhibits; outreach programs for children and adults; readings from established authors and local literary icons; and other programs and events designed to encourage people to explore and express their voices through imaginative learning and the literary arts.

Many classes and events at the Carnegie Center are free, and wherever low-cost registration fees are required, scholarships are available. The Carnegie Center has long been a haven for writers and readers, and we have built on that tradition to become a home to diverse groups of people who love to read, to discuss, to explore, to play, to create, and to learn. There’s something for everyone at the Carnegie Center, where learning lives.