{"product_id":"once-a-city-said-a-louisville-poets-anthology-9781956046083","title":"Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets Anthology","description":"\u003cb\u003eA Louisville Poets Anthology edited by\u003cbr\u003eLouisville native and acclaimed \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eHorsepower\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e author Joy Priest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eConceived in the aftermath of city-wide\u003cbr\u003eprotests in 2020, \u003ci\u003eOnce a City Said\u003c\/i\u003e showcases the polyvocal communities\u003cbr\u003eof Louisville, Kentucky, a city celebrated for its bourbon, basketball, and\u003cbr\u003ehorseracing, but long fraught with racial injustice, police corruption, and\u003cbr\u003esocial unrest. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePriest\u003cbr\u003etakes the city's narrative out of the mouths of politicians, news anchors, and\u003cbr\u003epolice chiefs, and puts it into the mouths of poets. What emerges is an\u003cbr\u003eintimate report of a city misshapen by segregation, tourism, and ruptures in\u003cbr\u003ethe public trust. Featuring thirty-seven acclaimed and emerging poets--including\u003cbr\u003eMitchell L. H. Douglas, Erin Keane, Ryan Ridge, and Hannah L. Drake--\u003ci\u003eOnce a\u003cbr\u003eCity Said\u003c\/i\u003e archives the traditions and icons, the landmarks and spirits, the\u003cbr\u003eportraits and memories of Derby City.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis publication is supported by individual donors who gave to the 2021 Fund for the Arts ArtsMatch campaign. Matching funds were made possible by Fund for the Arts in partnership with LG\u0026amp;E and KU Foundation. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoy Priest \u003c\/b\u003ewas born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky across the street from the world's most famous horse racing track. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eHorsepower\u003c\/i\u003e (Pitt Poetry Series, 2020), winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and is a National Endowment for the Arts fellow. Her poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review, \u003c\/i\u003eAcademy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series and \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eamong others, as well as in commissions for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Her essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Bitter Southerner\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoets \u0026amp; Writers\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eESPN\u003c\/i\u003e. Priest received her MFA in poetry with a certificate in Women \u0026amp; Gender Studies from the University of South Carolina.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eV. Joshua Adams \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of a chapbook, Cold\u003cbr\u003eAffections (Plan B Press, 2018). Work of his has appeared or is forthcoming in\u003cbr\u003eBennington Review, Posit, Painted Bride Quarterly, Tupelo Quarterly, and\u003cbr\u003eelsewhere. A former editor of Chicago Review, as well as a translator and\u003cbr\u003ecritic, he teaches literature and writing at the University of Louisville.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003emakalani bandele \u003c\/b\u003eis a Louisville native and\u003cbr\u003eAffrilachian Poet. He has received fellowships from Cave Canem Foundation, \u003cbr\u003eMillay Colony, Kentucky Arts Council, and Vermont Studio Center. Currently a\u003cbr\u003ecandidate for the MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Kentucky, \u003cbr\u003ebandele's work has been published in several anthologies and widely in literary\u003cbr\u003ejournals. The author of hellfightin' and under the aegis of a winged mind, \u003cbr\u003eawarded the 2019 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize, poems from under the aegis\u003cbr\u003ehave been published in Prairie Schooner, 32poems, and North American Review.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMackenzie Berry \u003c\/b\u003eis from Louisville, Kentucky. Her\u003cbr\u003epoetry has been published in Vinyl, Up the Staircase Quarterly, Hobart, and\u003cbr\u003eBlood Orange Review, among others. A graduate of the University of\u003cbr\u003eWisconsin-Madison through the First Wave Program and Goldsmiths, University of\u003cbr\u003eLondon, she is currently pursuing an MFA in Poetry at Cornell University. Her\u003cbr\u003edebut poetry collection 'Slack Tongue City' is forthcoming from Sundress\u003cbr\u003ePublications in 2022. You can find her work at mackenzieberry.com.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteve Cambron\u003c\/b\u003e's\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003epoetry has appeared in\u003cbr\u003eLiterary Leo, Word Hotel and Heartland Trail Review and have one two Green\u003cbr\u003eRiver Writers awards. His poetry was choreographed and featured in the\u003cbr\u003eLouisville Ballet's 2018 Choreographer's Showcase. He is the creator and host\u003cbr\u003eof Flying Out Loud, a monthly reading series featuring some of Louisville's\u003cbr\u003efinest writers and poets. He is currently working on an MFA at the Eastern\u003cbr\u003eKentucky University Bluegrass Writer's Studio.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeremy Michael Clark\u003c\/b\u003e's poems have appeared in West\u003cbr\u003eBranch, Poetry Northwest, Southern Review, and elsewhere. He holds degrees from\u003cbr\u003ethe University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy and Practice and\u003cbr\u003eRutgers University-Newark, where he received his MFA. Born and raised in\u003cbr\u003eLouisville, Kentucky, he is a licensed social worker living in Brooklyn.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBernard Clay \u003c\/b\u003eis a Louisville, Kentucky, native who\u003cbr\u003egrew up in the shadow of the now demolished Southwick housing projects on the\u003cbr\u003e\"West End\" of town. He has spent most of his life in Kentucky cultivating an\u003cbr\u003eappreciation, over the years, for the state's disappearing natural wonders and\u003cbr\u003eunique but sparse urban areas. ​\u003cbr\u003eBernard received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Kentucky\u003cbr\u003eCreative Writing Program and is a member of the Affrilachian Poets collective.\u003cbr\u003eHis work has been published in various journals and anthologies. He currently\u003cbr\u003eresides on a farm in eastern Kentucky with his wife Lauren. English Lit is his\u003cbr\u003efirst book.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eDarcy Cleaver\u003c\/b\u003e, teacher, poet, and playwright, lives\u003cbr\u003ein Louisville, Kentucky with her wife and four dogs. Darcy moved away in the\u003cbr\u003e'80s to pursue the gay agenda; she was overjoyed to return years later to a\u003cbr\u003emuch more inclusive city.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eRon Davis \u003c\/b\u003eis a poet and visual artist whose narrative\u003cbr\u003eworks range from social commentary to afrofuturism, often intertwining the\u003cbr\u003esocietal with the speculative. a louisville native, he now resides in\u003cbr\u003elexington, ky with his partner Crystal Wilkinson.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eA native of Louisville's West\u003cbr\u003eEnd, \u003cb\u003eMitchell L. H. Douglas\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of dying in the scarecrow's\u003cbr\u003earms, \\blak\\ \\al-fə bet\\, winner of the\u003cbr\u003ePersea Books Lexi Rudnitsky\/Editor's Choice Award, and Cooling Board: A\u003cbr\u003eLong-Playing Poem, an NAACP Image Award and Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award\u003cbr\u003enominee. He is a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow\u003cbr\u003ein poetry, a Cave Canem alum, and Associate Professor of English at Indiana\u003cbr\u003eUniversity-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI).\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eHannah Drake \u003c\/b\u003eis a blogger, activist, public speaker, \u003cbr\u003epoet, and author of 11 books. She writes commentary on politics, feminism, and\u003cbr\u003erace and her work has been featured online at Cosmopolitan, The Bitter\u003cbr\u003eSoutherner, The Lily, Harper's Bazaar and Revolt TV. Hannah is the author of\u003cbr\u003eseveral works of poetry, Hannah's Plea-Poetry for the Soul, Anticipation, Life\u003cbr\u003eLived In Color, In Spite of My Chains, For Such A Time As This and So Many\u003cbr\u003eThings I Want to Tell You-Life Lessons for the Journey. Hannah was selected as\u003cbr\u003eone of the Best of the Best in Louisville, Kentucky for her poem Spaces and\u003cbr\u003erecently was honored as a Kentucky Colonel, the highest title of honor bestowed\u003cbr\u003eby the Kentucky Governor recognizing an individual's noteworthy accomplishments\u003cbr\u003eand outstanding service to community, state, and nation. In 2021 Hannah\u003cbr\u003ework as an activist and poet was profiled in the New York Times, highlighting her work and the (Un)Known\u003cbr\u003eProject that seeks to recognize the known and unknown names of Black people\u003cbr\u003ethat were enslaved in Kentucky and throughout the nation.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJessica Farquhar \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of Dear Motorcycle\u003cbr\u003eEnthusiast, a chapbook published by The Magnificent Field in 2020. She holds an\u003cbr\u003eMFA from Purdue, where she was the assistant director of Creative Writing. You\u003cbr\u003ecan find her work in recent issues of Can We Have Our Ball Back? and Bear\u003cbr\u003eReview.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eIsiah Fish \u003c\/b\u003eis a queer poet \u0026amp; performer from\u003cbr\u003eLouisville, Kentucky. He holds an M.F.A. from Southern Illinois University\u003cbr\u003eCarbondale where he worked as an editor for Crab Orchard Review. His work has\u003cbr\u003ebeen published in Albion Review, Blood Orange Review, Foglifter, \u0026amp; Miracle\u003cbr\u003eMonocle.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobin Garner \u003c\/b\u003eis a spoken word artist, published poet, \u003cbr\u003ehost \u0026amp; keynote speaker. She utilizes her passion for poetry \u0026amp; spoken\u003cbr\u003eword to uplift, encourage and ignite her audience. Inspired by own adversities\u003cbr\u003eand triumphs, she is best known for her raw, transparent and uncensored\u003cbr\u003enarrative in regards to women and their struggle with loving, living and\u003cbr\u003emaintaining their own identity.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartha Greenwald \u003c\/b\u003eis the Founding Director of WhoWeLostKY.org, a project\u003cbr\u003eencouraging Kentuckians to write about loved ones lost to Covid-19. She is the\u003cbr\u003ewinner of the 2020 Yeats Prize for Poetry. Her first collection of poetry, \u003cbr\u003eOther Prohibited Items, was the winner of the Mississippi Review Poetry Series.\u003cbr\u003eHer work has appeared in such journals as New World Writing, The Threepenny Review, \u003cbr\u003eSlate, Poetry, The Sewanee Review and Best New Poets. She has held a Wallace\u003cbr\u003eStegner Fellowship at Stanford and been awarded fellowships from the North\u003cbr\u003eCarolina and Kentucky Arts Councils, the Breadloaf and Sewanee Writer's\u003cbr\u003eConferences, Yaddo, and the Vermont Studio Center. She taught as an adjunct\u003cbr\u003eprofessor for eighteen years at the University of Louisville.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Haydon \u003c\/b\u003eis a poet and essayist originally from\u003cbr\u003eSpringfield, KY. David is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of\u003cbr\u003eSouthern California, studying nonfiction. David's work explores Southern\u003cbr\u003equeerness, maternity, and significations of the body.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Higdon \u003c\/b\u003eis a writer from Kentucky. His work has\u003cbr\u003ebeen published or is forthcoming in Exposition Review, Lucky Jefferson, Coffin\u003cbr\u003eBell Journal, Naugatuck River Review, and the tiny journal. He is the 2021\u003cbr\u003ewinner of The Grand Prix Prize from the Kentucky State Poetry Society. He lives\u003cbr\u003ewith his family in Louisville, Ky.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn James \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of The Milk Hours (Milkweed, \u003cbr\u003e2019), selected by Henri Cole for the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. His poems appear\u003cbr\u003ein Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, PEN Poetry Series, Best American\u003cbr\u003ePoetry, and elsewhere. Raised in Louisville, he is pursuing a PhD in English at\u003cbr\u003ethe University of California, Berkeley.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eErin Keane is the author of three collections of poems and is the editor of\u003cbr\u003eThe Louisville Anthology from Belt Publishing. She is editor in chief at Salon.com and is on the faculty of\u003cbr\u003eSpalding University's School of Creative and Professional Writing. She lives in\u003cbr\u003eLouisville. \u003cb\u003eAnna Leigh Knowles\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of Conditions of The\u003cbr\u003eWounded (Wisconsin Poetry Series, 2021). Her work appears in Blackbird, Indiana\u003cbr\u003eReview, Memorious, The Missouri Review Online, Poetry Northwest, RHINO, \u003cbr\u003estorySouth, Hunger Mountain, Thrush Poetry Journal, and Tin House Online. A\u003cbr\u003erecipient of an Illinois Arts Council Agency Award, she has also received\u003cbr\u003escholarships from the Appalachian Writers' Workshop, Bear River Writers'\u003cbr\u003eWorkshop, the New Harmony Writers' Workshop, the San Miguel de Allende Writers'\u003cbr\u003eConference, and a Female Leadership Residency at Omega Institution. She holds\u003cbr\u003ean MFA from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale and a BA from University of\u003cbr\u003eColorado-Denver. For more information, visit annaleighknowles.com.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eKristi Maxwell \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of seven books of poems, \u003cbr\u003eincluding My My (Saturnalia Books, 2020); Realm Sixty-four, editor's choice for\u003cbr\u003ethe Sawtooth Poetry Prize; Hush Sessions, editor's choice for the Saturnalia\u003cbr\u003eBooks Poetry Prize; and Re-, finalist for the National Poetry Series. She's an\u003cbr\u003eassociate professor of English at the University of Louisville.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eKentucky poet, folklorist, and educator \u003cb\u003eSarah\u003cbr\u003eMcCartt-Jackson\u003c\/b\u003e's work has appeared in Bellingham Review, Indiana Review, \u003cbr\u003eJournal of American Folklore, The Maine Review, Tidal Basin Review, The\u003cbr\u003eLouisville Review, and others. She is the recipient of an Al Smith Individual\u003cbr\u003eArtist Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council, and has served as\u003cbr\u003eartist-in-residence for four National Parks: Great Smoky Mountains, Acadia, \u003cbr\u003eCatoctin Mountain National Park, and Homestead. She is the author of Stonelight\u003cbr\u003e(Airlie Press), which won the Phillip H. McMath Award, Weatherford Award in Poetry, \u003cbr\u003eand Airlie Prize. Her chapbooks include Calf Canyon (selected for publication\u003cbr\u003eby Louisville poet Kiki Petrosino), Vein of Stone, and Children Born on the\u003cbr\u003eWrong Side of the River. She is an elementary school teacher in Jefferson\u003cbr\u003eCounty.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eErin L. McCoy \u003c\/b\u003eholds an MFA in creative writing and an\u003cbr\u003eMA in Hispanic studies from the University of Washington. Her work has appeared\u003cbr\u003ein the \"Best New Poets\" anthology twice, selected by Natalie Diaz and\u003cbr\u003eKaveh Akbar. She won second place in the 2019-2020 Rougarou Poetry Contest, \u003cbr\u003ejudged by CAConrad, and is currently a finalist for the Missouri Review's 2021\u003cbr\u003eMiller Audio Prize. Her poetry and fiction have been published or are\u003cbr\u003eforthcoming in West Branch, Narrative, Bennington Review, Conjunctions, \u003cbr\u003ePleiades, DIAGRAM, Nimrod International Journal, and other publications. She is\u003cbr\u003efrom Louisville, Kentucky. Her website is erinlmccoy.com.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eGlenna Meeks \u003c\/b\u003eis an emerging poet and filmmaker from\u003cbr\u003eLouisville, Kentucky. She lives in NYC and comes back to Louisville yearly. Her\u003cbr\u003epoems have been published in The London Reader and Taunt Magazine. She is\u003cbr\u003ewriting a memoir about the people and places that have made her.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eSunshine Meyers \u003c\/b\u003eis a self-professed Louisville\u003cbr\u003enative, speech-language pathologist, artist, and closet poet. While these titles\u003cbr\u003emay seem disparate, they each convey her primary passions of communication and\u003cbr\u003eself-expression. As a bisexual woman and survivor of long-term abuse with PTSD, \u003cbr\u003eSunshine aims to use her poetry to embolden the voice of others who are all too\u003cbr\u003eused to living in silence.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarta Miranda-Straub \u003c\/b\u003eis a poet and storyteller who\u003cbr\u003ehas spent her life working towards equity and inclusion and advancing social\u003cbr\u003eand economic justice for marginalized communities. She is the author of Cradled by\u003cbr\u003eSkeletons: A Life in Poems and Essays (Shadelandhouse\u003cbr\u003eModern Press 2019). Until the age of twelve Marta was raised in Pinar del Rio, \u003cbr\u003eCuba. Marta now lives and works in Louisville, Kentucky, and she describes\u003cbr\u003eherself affectionately as a Cubalachian--a combination of Cuban and\u003cbr\u003eAppalachian. She was inducted into the Affrilachian Poets by Frank X Walker in\u003cbr\u003e2009. For many years she was the director of the Center for Women \u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003eFamilies in Louisville. Marta is a queer Latinx woman who lives and works at\u003cbr\u003ethe intersection of identities, ethnicity, race, gender, and\u003cbr\u003esexualities--applying an intersectional feminist lens to all she does. She has\u003cbr\u003eover forty years of experience in organizational and clinical social work\u003cbr\u003epractice, during which she has held multiple roles, including professor, social\u003cbr\u003eresearcher, author, psychotherapist, executive leader, fundraising\u003cbr\u003eprofessional, community organizer, advocate\/activist, executive coach, \u003cbr\u003efacilitator, trainer, and public speaker. \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eEllen Birkett Morris \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of Surrender, a\u003cbr\u003epoetry chapbook, Lost Girls, a short story collection, and Abide, a poetry\u003cbr\u003echapbook forthcoming from Seven Kitchens Press. Her poetry has appeared in The\u003cbr\u003eClackamas Literary Review, Juked, Gastronomica, and Inscape, among other\u003cbr\u003ejournals. Morris won top prize in the 2008 Binnacle Ultra-Short Edition and was\u003cbr\u003ea finalist for the 2019 and 2020 Rita Dove Poetry Prize.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eLance G. Newman \u003c\/b\u003eis a 'Renaissance Man' who wears\u003cbr\u003eseveral hats; the writer, the poet, the actor, the playwright, the artist, the\u003cbr\u003eteacher and the student. He is affectionately refer to as 'Mr. SpreadLove, ' and\u003cbr\u003efor the past twenty years, he's been trying to put the l-o-v-e in Louisville.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNguy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eễn V\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eũ Ng\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eọc Uyên\u003c\/b\u003e is a Vietnamese-American immigrant, a social worker\u003cbr\u003eand a therapist. She lives in South Louisville with her husband and their two\u003cbr\u003ecats and two dogs.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eThe work of \u003cb\u003eRobert L. Penick\u003c\/b\u003e has appeared in The\u003cbr\u003eLouisville Review, The Pikeville Review, Kudzu, Literary LEO and Trajectory\u003cbr\u003ewithin Kentucky, and journals like The Hudson Review, North American Review and\u003cbr\u003ePlainsongs without. More of his work can be found at theartofmercy.net\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoy Priest \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of Horsepower (Pitt Poetry\u003cbr\u003eSeries, 2020), selected as the winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry by\u003cbr\u003eU.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey. She is the recipient of a 2021 National\u003cbr\u003eEndowment for the Arts fellowship and the 2019-2020 Fine Arts Work Center\u003cbr\u003efellowship, and the winner of the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from the\u003cbr\u003eAmerican Poetry Review. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous\u003cbr\u003epublications, including the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series, The\u003cbr\u003eAtlantic, and Kenyon Review among others, as well as in commissions for the\u003cbr\u003eMuseum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH) and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art\u003cbr\u003e(LACMA). Joy is currently an Inprint MD Anderson Foundation fellow and doctoral\u003cbr\u003estudent in Literature \u0026amp; Creative Writing at the University of Houston.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eRyan Ridge \u003c\/b\u003ewas born and raised in Louisville, \u003cbr\u003eKentucky. He is the author of four chapbooks as well as five books, including\u003cbr\u003e*New Bad News* (Sarabande Books 2020). His writing has appeared in American\u003cbr\u003eBook Review, DIAGRAM, Denver Quarterly, Passages North, Post Road, Salt Hill, \u003cbr\u003eSanta Monica Review, Southwest Review, and elsewhere. An assistant professor at\u003cbr\u003eWeber State University in Ogden, Utah, he codirects the Creative Writing\u003cbr\u003eProgram. In addition to his work as a writer and teacher, he edits the literary\u003cbr\u003emagazine Juked, and lives in Salt Lake City with the writer Ashley Farmer. He\u003cbr\u003eplays bass in the Snarlin' Yarns.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlex Shull \u003c\/b\u003eis a long time Louisvillian, lifelong poet\u003cbr\u003eand software developer by trade.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eRheonna Nicole \u003c\/b\u003eis a poet, artist, spoken word\u003cbr\u003ecompetitor and entrepreneur. A native Louisvillian, she graduated from Valley\u003cbr\u003eHigh School and studied commercial arts at Murray State University. Rheonna has\u003cbr\u003ebeen a featured speaker at The National Council of Negro Women's Martin Luther\u003cbr\u003eKing Jr. brunch, Girls IdeaFest, World Festival, Kentucky Women's Writers\u003cbr\u003eConference, Louisville Literary Arts reading series and Indiana University\u003cbr\u003ePoetry Festival. She has been featured in Today's Woman Magazine, Leo Weekly, \u003cbr\u003eInsider Louisville, Courier Journal, and Spalding University's Art \u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003eLiterary Hotel. In 2016 she competed in the Women of the World Poetry Slam, \u003cbr\u003eranking sixth place amongst 96 other female spoken word artists in the nation.\u003cbr\u003eNow a published poet, she has created her own organization called Lipstick Wars\u003cbr\u003ePoetry Slam (a partnership with ArtsReach of the Kentucky Center for the Arts), \u003cbr\u003ean all-woman poetry slam competition where she offers a platform for poets to\u003cbr\u003espeak out against the injustices and celebrations of womanhood.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAileen Tierney \u003c\/b\u003eis currently based in Louisville, \u003cbr\u003eKentucky. She holds a BA in English from the University of Kentucky.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlissa Vance \u003c\/b\u003eis a community activist, poet, and\u003cbr\u003ewriter, born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. In her daily life, Alissa\u003cbr\u003efights for housing and racial equity, freedom and liberty for all people, and\u003cbr\u003ejustice still for Travis Nagdy and Breonna Taylor.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eKen Walker \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of Twenty Glasses of Water\u003cbr\u003e(Diez, 2014) and Antworten (Greying Ghost, 2017). His work can be found in\u003cbr\u003eBoston Review, Hyperallergic, The Poetry Project Newsletter, The Brooklyn Rail, \u003cbr\u003eThe Seattle Review, Atlas Review, Lumberyard, Tammy, and many other\u003cbr\u003epublications.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJasmine Wigginton \u003c\/b\u003eis a youth worker and a writer from\u003cbr\u003eLouisville, Kentucky, and is currently located in Baltimore, Maryland. 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