Kentucky Voices 2024:
An Evening of Authors and Artists

DECEMBER 6, 2024 • Frankfort, KY • 7PM ET.
(Doors Open for Reception for 6:30)

Location: Church of the Ascension, 311 Washington Street Frankfort, KY 40601

The in-person evening will feature nonfiction and poetry readings from Eastern Kentucky and beyond, as well as a presentation of beautiful nature photography. Kentucky Voices is free to KCC members in good standing, but we also encourage you to renew your membership at the event and invite a friend to come and join or donate to KCC, to help us raise funds to prepare for the 2025 legislative session.

This year’s event features these distinguished authors:

Melissa Helton

Editor of the powerful 2024 anthology “Troublesome Rising: A Thousand-Year Flood in Eastern Kentucky.” Published by the University of Kentucky Press, the collection brings together well-known and emerging Appalachian rising who document the devastating July 2022 floods, and their personal experiences, through words and images. This varied and deeply moving work also examines the disaster’s causes, the need for solutions, and how flooding historically has impacted Appalachian communities and culture.

Jon Reynolds

Photographer and author of the 2024 book “Illuminating Nature: Chasing Light Across the Landscape.” Reynolds’s eye for light, imagery, and nature was sharpened in childhood on his grandfather’s central Kentucky farm. The photographs in this new book from publisher W.W. Norton invite the viewer deep into the natural world—and offer both reflections and photography tips.

Greg Pape

Poet and author of the 2023 collection “A Field of First Things,” published by Accents Publishing in Lexington. Described by one reviewer as “perhaps the capstone to his fine career as a poet,” Pape’s latest published collection features narrative poems of beauty, compassion, and introspection, as well as poems addressing the complex interdependence between humans and the natural world.

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