he next night of Louisville's newest reading series. This event features award-winning, published, and emerging writers with music by local artists. Book sales and signing will be available. Join us for excellent food, drinks, music, and poetics. Free admission.

This event features: Kristi Maxwell, Hannah Rego, Anna Leigh Knowles, Lee Cole, Sherry Chandler, & music by No Sugar.

No Sugar is a Louisville based song-writing collective that mixes pop, folk, and electronic music. They play venues in need of live music and have hours of covers/ original selections ready to go. Find them on FB if interested. No Sugar would like to say that they are honored to be returning to an event that promotes new art and thanks everyone for their awesome participation in keeping events like these running within the Louisville community.

https://www.facebook.com/nosugarband/

Kristi Maxwell is the author of five books of poetry, including Realm Sixty-four and That Our Eyes Be Rigged. She is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Louisville and one of the founders of KnowHow Knoxville, a community organization in East TN that focuses on elevating the voices of youth through the arts.

Hannah Rego is a writer from Louisville, Kentucky. They hold a B.A. in anthropology from U of L, where they received the Leon V. Driskell Award for their poetry. Hannah has edited poetry at Miracle Monocle, interned at Sarabande Books, and attended the 2016 Spalding MFA Residency. They received the Flo Gault Poetry Prize from Sarabande Books in 2016. Their poetry appears or is forthcoming in BOAAT, BOMB Magazine, and The Louisville Review. 

Anna Leigh Knowles is a MFA candidate at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. Her nonfiction and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in Tin House (the open bar), Pleiades, The Missouri Review online, Indiana Review (finalist for the 2016 Poetry Prize), storySouth, Thrush Poetry Journal and elsewhere. Currently, she is an assistant editor for the literary journal Crab Orchard Review. 

Lee Cole studies creative writing in the master's program at the University of Louisville. His work has appeared in Word Riot and The Citron Review. He enjoys spending too much money on records, eating fried chicken and sometimes imagining that his life is a Bruce Springsteen song (probably Dancing in the Dark).

Sherry Chandler lives on a small farm in Bourbon County, Ky, with her woodcarver husband. Her work has appeared in many magazines and journals, including The Louisville Review, Kestrel, and The Cortland Review, and has been anthologized in Imagine a World: Poetry for Peacemakers and Circe's Lament, Anthology of Wild Women Poems, among others. She has authored two full-length collections, Weaving a New Eden and The Woodcarvers Wife, both from Wind Publications. She has had awards from the Kentucky Arts Council and the Kentucky Foundation for Women, and has been nominated three times for a Pushcart..