Kentucky Poet Laureate Frank X. Walker to give reading

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Poet Laureate Frank X. Walker will read from his work next month at the University of Louisville as part of a reading series put on by the English department’s creative writing program.

The readings and master classes given by the writers are open to the public.

Walker’s reading is at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 19 in Bingham Poetry Room of the Ekstrom Library. He leads a 10 a.m. master class Feb. 20, also on campus.

Other writers taking part in the Anne and William Axton Reading Series are novelist and journalist Sayed Kashua, Feb. 12 and 13; University of California-Irvine professor and author Michelle Latiolais, March 26 and 27; and U of L professor and author Paul Griner, April 2.

For more information, visit http://louisville.edu/english/creative-writing/axton-reading-series .

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