

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Verse Sprung from Myth and Legend: Recent Kentucky Poetry
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 01 Mar, 2026 at 02:00 pm – Sun, 01 Mar, 2026 at 04:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us for an afternoon of readings by poets Kathleen Driskell, Christopher McCurry, Jeremy Paden, and Katerina Stoykova! A signing will follow, with books available for purchase.

Award-winning poet, essayist, and teacher Kathleen Driskell has authored of six poetry collections, most recently Goat-Footed Gods (Carnegie Mellon UP). Other collections include Blue Etiquette: Poems, a finalist for the Weatherford Award; Next Door to the Dead, winner of the Judy Gaines Young Book Award; and Seed Across Snow, a Poetry Foundation national bestseller. Her individual poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Rattle, River Teeth, Appalachian Review, The Southern Review, Shenandoah and other magazines; and her work has been featured in Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and American Life in Poetry. From 2019-22, she served as chair of the board of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, the professional organization of creative writers and creative writing programs with around 75,000 members. She is professor of creative writing and Chair of the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University in Louisville, where she lives with her husband in an old country church built before the American Civil War. On April 24, 2025, Governor Andy Beshear appointed Kathleen as the 2025-26 Kentucky Poet Laureate.

Christopher McCurry is an award winning teacher and writer. His poems have appeared in Appalachian Heritage, Diode, Pine Mountain Sand &amp; Gravel, The Los Angeles Review, The Louisville Review, Rabbit Catastrophe Review, Rattle and others. Chris is a graduate of the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. A high school English teacher, Christopher was awarded Kentucky High School Teacher of the Year in 2021 for his work as a poet and advocate for equity in Kentucky schools. In 2015, Christopher co-founded Workhorse, a publishing company and community for working writers. He believes everyone should write poems and that everyone can. His most recent book of poetry, The Gospel of God Boy, is available through Accents Publishing. When Chris isn’t working, he spends his time playing board games, disc golf, and going on adventures with his family. 

Jeremy Paden was born in Milan, Italy, and is professor of Latin American literature at Transylvania University and on faculty at Spalding University's low-residency MFA. He is also a poet and a translator. He is the author of multiple chapbooks and full-length collections of poems in both English and Spanish including Broken Tulips (Accents Publishing, 2013), ruina montium (Broadstone Books, 2016), prison recipes (Broadstone Books, 2018), and How to Recognize God's Chosen (Accents Publishing, 2025). His bilingual Self-Portrait as an Iguana (Valparaíso USA, 2021) was named co-winner of the inaugural Poeta en Nueva York Prize, and his bilingual illustrated children's book Under the Ocelot Sun/Bajo el sol del ocelote (Shadelandhouse Modern Press, 2020) won a 2020 Campoy-Ada Prize awarded by the North American Academy of the Spanish Language for Children's Literature in Spanish. As a translator, he has published translations of contemporary Argentine, Bolivian, Chilean, Colombian, Mexican, Panamanian, Peruvian, Spanish, and Uruguayan poetry. His Spanish language translation of Ada Limón's The Hurting Kind has recently been published in Spain with Valparaíso Ediciones.

A Bulgarian by birth, Katerina Stoykova is a bilingual poet living in Kentucky and is the author of Between a Bird Cage and a Bird House (University Press of Kentucky, 2024) and The Poet's Guide to Publishing: How to Conceive, Arrange, Edit, Publish and Market a Book of Poetry (McFarland, 2024). Katerina is the founder and senior editor of Accents Publishing, as well as the creator of the Accents podcast on WUKY. Katerina served as the 2023-2024 Director of the Kentucky Book Festival, as well as the Director for the Center for the Book in Kentucky and is the 2025-2026 President of the Kentucky State Poetry Society.

Please register at https://www.pspl.org/event/verse. For more information, contact Megan Pickett at (502) 352-2665 x108 or megan.pickett@pspl.org.
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Frankfort
- **state**: KY
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 319 Wapping St, Frankfort, KY, United States, Kentucky 40601
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- **full address**: 319 Wapping St, Frankfort, KY, United States, Kentucky 40601

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- **organizer**: Paul Sawyier Public Library (https://allevents.in/org/paul-sawyier-public-library/1919245)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sun, 01 Mar, 2026 at 02:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 319 Wapping St, Frankfort, KY, United States, Kentucky 40601
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Paul Sawyier Public Library
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
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