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An Evening with Kentucky Poet Laureate Silas House

  • Frazier History Museum 829 West Main Street Louisville, KY, 40202 United States (map)

He will tell you John Boy Walton, a country boy who wanted to be a writer, was his hero. Silas House was living that same life in Southeastern Kentucky, and when a teacher told him he was a writer, he believed her as she had believed in him.

With his many novels, Silas House is among the strongest voices of Southern writers. He is a New York Times bestselling author, a Grammy finalist, Kentucky’s current poet laureate, and a faculty member at both Berea College and Spalding University’s Master of Fine Arts in Writing program, from which he received his degree. His working-class upbringing and deep roots in Appalachia helped shape him. And it wasn’t always easy as a gay man. Even so, you won’t find a greater advocate for Kentucky.

Come hear Silas House tell his own story in his most eloquent voice.

You will learn. You will be moved. You will be inspired.

Book Signing Afterwards (Carmichael’s on site to sell his books)

Light Hors D’oeurves and Cash Bar

Doors Open: 5:30 p.m.

Program: 6–7:30 p.m. (Book signing afterwards – 7:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.)

General Admission: $30 • $25 (Contributor-Level Members & Up)

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