What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Kentucky Quilts and Quiltmakers: Three Centuries of Creativity, Community, and Commerce is a social and material culture history of the extraordinary ways in which Kentucky women and a few men have shaped a traditionally women’s art to such high standards that these […]
Jay McCoy
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? At my table you will find my most recent poetry book, Between Two Worlds, which was published by Act of Power Press in 2023. I will also have copies of Swing Set Confessional, a chapbook published by Act of Power Press in […]
Between 1820 and 1913, approximately 16,000 black people left the United States to start new lives in Liberia, Africa, in what was at the time the largest out-migration in US history. When Tolbert Major, a former Kentucky slave and single father, was offered his own chance for freedom, he accepted. He, several family members, and […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Five books: For Your Good Health, Drink Flowers: New and Collected Poems. This full-length collection includes poems written over four decades, exploring family, feminism, writing, nature, travel, and spirit. Poems are written in open and traditional forms, including pantoums, sonnets, villanelles, […]
LeTonia Jones is a life-long Kentuckian who has used the alchemy of arts and activism for over 25 years. The poems in Black Girl at the Intersection speak from the intersection of social justice and personal heartbreak.
Leira Clara’s Flowers is a lyrical narrative based on positive psychology and choice theory, essentially about making choices that cultivate kindness. The use of passing down a love of nature from generation to generation also embeds the idea that multi-age levels work well together. The book combines social-emotional learning skills with a love of nature. […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? I’LL STOP THE WORLD is my debut novel, about a modern teen who finds himself inexplicably whisked back to the year 1985, one week before the mysterious deaths of his grandparents. There, he teams up with an ‘80s teen to attempt to […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Goodnight Little Bunny is my second published book. This bedtime story that is just right for winding down the day with a joyful hopping bunny. A bunny that not only eats all his food but shows exactly how to get ready for […]
Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology is a landmark Latinx poetry collection including more than 180 poets, spanning from the 17th century to today, and presenting poems written in Spanish in the original and in English translation.
Presented by The Kentucky Book Festival and Kentucky Humanities, this program is part of the main festival on November 2. Rigoberto González Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology Rigoberto González is distinguished professor of English at Rutgers University in Newark, where he is director of the MFA program in creative writing. He edited, Latino […]
A riveting story of survival and hope, set in the not-too-distant future, about a young man forced to flee the United States and seek refuge across the Atlantic. For readers of novels such as Station Eleven, The Dog Stars, and Migrations, Lark Ascending is a moving and unforgettable story of friendship, family, and healing.
In 130 ink-and-watercolor drawings, the story of one year on a family farm in Kentucky unfolds in captured moments of daily life: Donahue’s husband chopping wood, a cow sniffing her head, her daughter tending to goats after a hard day at school.