Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Final RopeWalk Reading features two Louisville poets
 Two Louisville poets, Nickole Brown and Dr. Lynnell Edwards, take the RopeWalk Reading Series podium on Thursday, April 24. Brown’s debut collection of poetry, Sister, was published by Red Hen Press in 2007. A poet and fiction writer, she has given a number of readings, including events in the early nineties with Garrison Keillor at New York's Waldorf Astoria and with Gregory Corso and Allen Ginsberg at New York University. She serves as the program coordinator for Union Institute and University’s summer writing residency in Slovenia and is the publicity consultant for the Palm Beach Poetry Festival. She has received grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and the Kentucky Arts Council. Her work has been featured in The Writer’s Chronicle, Poets & Writers, Another Chicago Magazine, Diagram Magazine, 32 Poems, The Cortland Review, Post Road, PP/FF, Florida Review, Chautauqua Literary Journal, and Mammoth Books’ Sudden Stories anthology. Her chapbook mud was published in 1996 by WhiteFields Press. She also co-edited the anthology Air Fare: Stories, Poems, and Essays on Flight (2004). She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Louisville and a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from Vermont College. She studied English Literature at Oxford University as an English Speaking Union Scholar, and was the editorial assistant for the late Hunter S. Thompson in 1997. Brown is director of marketing and development for Sarabande Books, a Louisville-based nonprofit literary press. Edwards is the author of two collections of poetry, both from Red Hen Press: The Highwayman's Wife (2007) and The Farmer's Daughter (2003). Her work has appeared in Poets Against the War; Raising Our Voices: Oregon Poets Against the War; and numerous literary journals including: Poems & Plays, Southern Poetry Review, Poetry East, and Dos Passos Review. She is a regular reviewer for The Georgia Review, Pleiades, and Rain Taxi. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky where she teaches at the University of Louisville. She received her doctorate and Master of Arts degree in English at the University of Louisville and her undergraduate degree at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. She is the recipient of a 2007 Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council. She also taught English at Bellarmine University in Louisville and for 10 years was a professor of English at Concordia University in Portland, Oregon, where she served as faculty advisor for the literary journal, The Promethean. All of the readings in the RopeWalk Reading Series begin at 5 p.m. in Kleymeyer Hall in the Liberal Center. |
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