Kentucky Voices 2024: An Evening of Kentucky Authors and Artists

Our 2024 event features these literary presentations:

• Melissa Helton: "Troublesome Rising: A Thousand-Year Floood in Eastern Kentucky"
• Jon Reynolds: "Illuminating Nature: Chasing Light Across the Landscape"
• Greg Pape: "A Field of First Things"

This annual event highlights Kentucky's authors and artists, presented by the Kentucky Conservation Committee.

This is an open/free presentation for our members but all are welcome. Donations to Kentucky Conservation Committee are appreciated to support our mission. We also invite you to explore the website links of our participating authors and artists featuring their works. The presentations will also include a wine & cheese reception.

At this time, if you have not already done so, we also encourage current members of KCC to renew their annual membership ($15/student, $40/standard membership). You may also become a NEW member with a donation of $40 or more. To learn more about the Kentucky Conservation Committee and its mission, click here.

Note: Donations to KCC are not tax-deductible due to our effective environmental lobbying efforts.

For more information about this event, contact KCC at 502-209-9659.

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MORE ABOUT OUR SPECIAL GUESTS:

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.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Church of the Ascension, 311 Washington Street, Frankfort, United States