Five authors discussed their journey of writing and navigating their identities during the second installment of the University of Kentucky Office of LGBTQ* Resources Lunch and Lit series.
The installment...
Editors note: Throughout her career, bell hooks chose to not have her name capitalized and has been known by her pen name ever since. This story will keep that pattern.
In memory of bell hooks’ life...
At the end of January, I had the privilege of meeting and interviewing a man named Joe Graft. I needed a subject for our Humans of UK column, and a friend passed off his name and contact information to...
My immediate thoughts after watching a rom-com are too often along the lines of, “Wow, I wish my relationship was like that,” even though I’m in a great relationship. I’m sure many people today...
Let’s get one thing straight: people die all the time, but the deaths that stick with us the most are those of our loved ones, friends and idols. This is especially true if their deaths come out of nowhere...
Crystal Wilkinson, an English professor in UK’s College of Arts and Sciences, was inducted as the state's poet laureate on April 24, 2021 as part of the Kentucky Writers Day celebration. The celebration...
Shockingly, I didn’t find my Prince Charming during the past year of quarantine. I found something better—a foolproof excuse for my perpetual single status. I finally had an excuse for my parents,...
In 1991, South Carolina native Nikky Finney came to Lexington to perform at a poetry reading titled, “The Best of Southern Writing.”Before Finney, who is black, was added to the list of performers,...
“Watchmen” is HBO’s newest series based on Dave Gibbon’s and Alan Moore’s 1986 graphic novel of the same name. For those who are unfamiliar with the source material, the graphic novel ‘Watchmen’...
If you search “top books read in high school” on Google and peruse through the results, there is one common theme: almost every single one of them features a male protagonist. Try to name all of the...
Every time I see the word “Kentucky” in a book, I feel a strange mixture of thrill and terror.Thrill because Kentucky is my home, and seeing the name of my home in published literature makes my heart...
Joy Priest had a folder full of poems but didn’t know she could be a poet. Priest had been a writer for as long as she could remember, but as an undergraduate student at UK, she hadn’t yet thought...
