The InKY Reading Series continues on Friday, December 9 at The Bard's Town (1801 Bardstown Road), featuring poet Sarah Gorham, novelist Michael Griffith and music from Heather Summers. As always this event is FREE to the community, so come out and celebrate literature live!

About poet Sarah Gorham's most recent book the poet David St. John writes: "Gorham's most powerful book yet, sustained poetic reckonings upon the despairs and delights of family." Her prior three books are: The Cure, The Tension Zone, and Don’t Go Back to Sleep.Gorham also writes essays, which are appearing in Iowa Review, AGNI, Creative Nonfiction, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, and Quarterly West. In 1994, Gorham founded Sarabande Books, and serves as its President and Editor-in-Chief.

Michael Griffith’s books are Trophy (TriQuarterly Books, 2011), Bibliophilia (Arcade, 2003) and Spikes (Arcade, 2001). His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Ninth Letter, Salmagundi, Oxford American, New England Review, Shenandoah, Ninth Letter, Southwest Review, Five Points, Blackbird, The Washington Post, and other periodicals. He is Associate Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati and teaches in the Sewanee School of Letters as well. In 2004 he became founding editor of Yellow Shoe Fiction, an original-fiction series from LSU Press, and he is Fiction Editor at Cincinnati Review.

Singer-songwriter Heather Summers opens with an acoustic set that invokes roots of dusty blues 78's and folksy gospel.