An Evening with Kentucky Poet Laureate Silas House

Name: An Evening with Kentucky Poet Laureate Silas House
Start: 2024-05-30T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-05-30T19:30:00-04:00
Location: 829 W Main St, Louisville, KY, United States, Kentucky 40202

Schedule

Thu May 30 2024 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

829 W Main St, Louisville, KY, United States, Kentucky 40202 | Louisville, KY

He will tell you John Boy Walton, a country boy who wanted to be a writer, was his hero. Silas House was living that same life in Southeastern Kentucky, and when a teacher told him he was a writer, he believed her as she had believed in him.
With his many novels, Silas House is among the strongest voices of Southern writers. He is a New York Times bestselling author, a Grammy finalist, Kentucky’s current poet laureate, and a faculty member at both Berea College and Spalding University’s Master of Fine Arts in Writing program, from which he received his degree. His working-class upbringing and deep roots in Appalachia helped shape him. And it wasn’t always easy as a gay man. Even so, you won’t find a greater advocate for Kentucky.
Come hear Silas House tell his own story in his most eloquent voice.
You will learn. You will be moved. You will be inspired.
Book Signing Afterwards (Carmichael’s on site to sell his books)
Light Hors D’oeurves and Cash Bar
Doors Open: 5:30 p.m.
Program: 6–7:30 p.m. (Book signing afterwards – 7:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.)
General Admission: $30 • $25 (Contributor-Level Members & Up)