There's always the possibility that no matter how obscure the writer, a fiction or poetry reading will cause you to forge a new consciousness in the smithy of your soul.
And there's the more likely possibility that the writing will be so God-awful that you'll be laughing your heine off at a writer so delusional that he had the audacity to air in public writing that's almost as bad as your thrice-started novel that you'll get back to once you get just a little more life experience (probably at the bar at Avalon).
With Louisville's most prominent emerging fiction writer, Tania James, featured on the front page of this week's Velocity, and April being National Poetry Month, now is a great time to look at Louisville's upcoming fiction and poetry readings.
Poetry reading with special guests: Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, Brett Eugene Ralph and Richard Taylor
21C Museum
700 W. Main Street
April 2, 7 p.m.
www.21cmuseum.org/museum/events/040209-poetry.aspx
Irish novelist Cathal Liam
The Irish Society of Kentuckiana
Commonwealth Bank, 286 N. Hubbards Lane
April 7, 7:30 p.m.
www.irishkyana.org/
Celebrate National Poetry Month with readings by Danville poet Lisa Williams and Indinapolis poet Chris Forhan
The Rudyard Kippling
April 10, 7 p.m.
www.therudyardkipling.com/musicschedule.html
Bards and storytellers: Harley Cannon
The Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind
1838 Frankfort Avenue
April 11, 1 p.m.
Reservations required: Call 502-899-2365)
www.sun1.aph.org/museum
Poets Merle Backman and Maureen Morehead
Carmichael's Bookstore
2720 Frankfort Ave
April 26, 4 p.m.
www.carmichaelsbookstore.com
(Photo: Flickr/Patrick Denker)
