Various concerns and enterprises

The InKY Reading Series is a monthly music and literature event held on the second Friday of the month at the Rudyard Kipling in Louisville, Kentucky. A co-founder of the series, I serve as director of InKY, Inc. and host of the monthly event. I say more about the experience with this panel of reading series directors.

More blogging. In addition to my EEK! blog, I also blog for Velocity, Louisville's weekly entertainment/lifestyle magzine published by The Courier-Journal.

Garbanzo! is a semi-quarterly literary endeavor dedicated to funny poems, essays, and literary ephemera. I answer the phones and handle correspondence for Fishsticks McQueen, who edits this funny little journal along with her cohort F. Scott Free.

Bellarmine University is an independent, Catholic university in the public interest, serving the region, the nation and the world by providing an educational environment of academic excellence and respect for the intrinsic value and dignity of each person. I teach Pop Music in American Literature in the Interdisciplinary Core program, and I'm a proud graduate (Communications '98).

The Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts provides hands-on-arts opportunity for the state's talented high school students who are dancers, actors, instrumental and vocal musicians, creative writers, future architects or visual artists. GSA’s primary component includes a three week summer residential program, regional arts workshops and master classes, college and career day and an artistic roster of performing and visual artists made up of GSA Alumni. I attended GSA's creative writing program in 1993 and I'm proud to serve GSA as a creative writing workshop instructor and a program adjudicator.

New Southerner is a bimonthly magazine of literary journalism about Southern people, places and issues, encouraging readers to live a more meaningful, self-sufficient life through thought-provoking and instructive articles on good stewardship of our land, conservation of natural resources, neighborliness and support of local communities. I'm honored to serve as a contributing editor for New Southerner.

The Heartland Review is a literary journal based at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College and edited by poet Mick Kennedy. THR features poetry, prose, art (including photography) and journalism. I currently serve on the editorial board of The Heartland Review, reading submissions for the poetry and short fiction contests.