Wednesday, April 2, 4-6 p.m. CDT: The Heartland Review’s poetry celebration and art walk, featuring Founder/Editor Mick Kennedy and honoring the publication of the journal’s spring issue. As judge of the Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize, I’ll read some poems. Free and open to the public. Open mic - sign-up begins at 3:45 p.m. Elizabethtown Community and Technical College, Dining Area of the Student Center.

Saturday, April 19, 2025, 1:30-4 p.m.: nature-writing workshop at Berea Urban Farm. Led by Carolyn Grace and me, with Melva Sue Priddy as featured reader. Free and open to writers of all genres and at all levels; sponsored by Shadelandhouse Modern Press. Register at https://www.sustainableberea.org/event-details-registration/generative-writing-workshop

Ongoing: Kentucky Humanities Council Speakers Bureau — I’m available to speak with your group on poetry and poetry-writing, contemplative seeing, and Antarctica (photographs). Contact me if you’re interested. For full descriptions, see the roster at https://www.kyhumanities.org/programs/speakers-bureau/speakers-roster — scroll down to Jones. Presentations can be adapted for length and audience.

Recent events:

Dec. 5, 6-7:30 p.m. — Featured Reader at Teen Howl, Third Street Stuff, Lexington.

Dec. 4, 6-9 p.m. — Featured Reader at Poetry at the Table, Kenwick Table, Lexington.

Sept. 21, 1-4:30 p.m. The Music of Our Voices — free generative writing workshop, led by Marianne Peel, Sylvia Lovely, and me. Loyal Jones Appalachian Center, Berea College, Berea, KY. Sponsored by Shadelandhouse Modern Press.

Saturday, Sept. 14 — Maryville College Poetry Reading, hosted by Bass Clef Books. Featured readers: Ted Higgs, George Drew, and me. Center for Campus Ministry, Maryville College, Maryville, TN.

June 22, 10 a.m.-noon, Northside branch of the Lexington Public Library. Intentional Photography Workshop. Lexington Camera Club photographers Bill Cole, David Fitts, and me.