What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? You will find Gay Poems for Red States at my table. It is a book of story poems that came into being primarily as a response to homophobia, transphobia, and erasure at a rural Kentucky high school but that speaks to the […]
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What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? hopefully theyll find my three full length poetry collections, Deifying A Total Darkness (Harry Tankoos Books, 2020), To Emit Teal (Broadstone Books, 2020), The Second Stop Is Jupiter (Wayne State University Press, 2023) – collectively a loose trilogy of poems in conversation […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Coal Man’s Son (Finishing Line Press) – The catalog description calls it “a gothic coal-camp mad / sacred fever-dream that remythologizes the origins of both God and Man, and what came between them.” That sounds about right. New Covenant Bound (University […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? In Roberta Schultz’s fourth chapbook, Asking Price, questions are key to examining humanity’s relationship to the planet we live on. Who eats what? When comes another dragon’s charm for pain? Why don’t we ever see a live armadillo? Join the bargaining war […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? The main book I’ll be promoting will be The Lost Etheridge: Uncollected Poems of Etheridge Knight, which I edited. I will also have copies of two collections of my poems: Advice to a Young Poet and Folly. Whom do you […]
YOU are fighting for freedom from enslavement for yourself and others during the mid-1800s. Will you escape to freedom? And will you help others escape as part of the Underground Railroad’s network of freedom fighters? Step back in time to face the challenges and decisions that real […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? My most recent book of poetry is The Parting Glass, published by Madville Press in November of 2022 which won the 2021 Arthur Smith Poetry Prize. My first book, This Gone Place, won the 2010 Weatherford Award for Poetry and a second […]
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 […]
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.
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? I’ll have the latest copy of my poetry chapbook The Vine Temple, which features poems about the Louisville bussing riots and the Cemetery for CSA Veterans in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. I’ll also have my award-winning collection Next Door to the Dead. […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Going Through It, my new book, the 40th of my ‘career’ published around my 80th birthday. First book was published in 1966. This adds about a third beyond two previous collections reprinted in its pages. One thinks one progresses and so this […]
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