The Lakehouse is one of the housing options for the Writer in Residence program at Bernheim.

Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, Sarabande Books and The Baltic Writing Residency are pleased to announce their co-sponsorship of an annual Writer-in-Residence Program to be located at Bernheim. The goal of the program is to help realize its mission of connecting people with nature through poetry and literature.

Bernheim will provide the selected writers a comfortable place to live and work for a mutually agreed upon amount of time. They will oversee the daily needs of the writers and encourage and support their interactions with visitors, staff and other artists. The writers are expected to offer a reading or discussion during their stay. One event will take place at Bernheim. Sarabande and BWR will host another in the Louisville community.

Sarabande Books, a well-respected literary publisher and experienced facilitator of literary competitions, located in Louisville, will utilize its extensive literary network and reach in order to attract and nominate a nationally recognized or emerging writer. The Baltic Writing Residency program, also located in Louisville, will select a nominee using an anonymous committee of judges composed of an established poet and fiction writer, and one member of Harvard’s English Department. Candidates will be interviewed by all three partners before a final selection is made. Anyone interested in applying can do so through The Baltic Writing Residency.

 The first Writer-in-Residence is poet Ann Townsend. She will inaugurate the program this summer at a date to be determined. Ms. Townsend, the Chair of the English Department at Denison University, is a Sarabande published poet and the author of two collections of poetry: Dime Store Erotics (1998), and The Coronary Garden (2005), and is the editor of Radiant Lyre: Essays on Lyric Poetry (2007), with David Baker. Her poetry, fiction and criticism appear in such magazines as Agni, Poetry, The Paris Review, The Nation, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Witness, and many others. In 2003-2004 she received an Individual Artist’s Grant in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, and also won the James Dickey Prize in Poetry, sponsored by Five Points magazine. Her poems have been anthologized in: Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (2006), The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry By American Women (2001), American Poetry: The Next Generation (2000), The Bread Loaf Anthology of New American Poets (2000), Imperfect Paradise: New Young American Poets (2000), and The Pushcart Prize XX (1995)

The first PechaKucha Night was held in February, 2003, in Tokyo, with the idea being that because architects talk too much, as do many creative people, they should be required to present in a format where this won’t be a problem.

Now, PechaKucha Nights are a global thing, happening in over 500 cities, including ours.

Good PechaKucha presentations are the ones that uncover unexpected talent, or unexpected ideas. Some PechaKuchas tell great stories about a project or a trip. Some are incredibly personal, some are incredibly funny, but each is different and delicious, much like the offerings in a great “box of chocolates.”

Volume 11 is the first event produced under the new guest curator position, currently held by Abbey Smith.  Smith will bring her focus on empowering women along with interests in local history, art, spirituality, community activism, and the environment.

Doors open at 7pm on Tuesday and the event starts at 8pm.

For more information visit www.pklouisville.org

The first burn was conducted on March 21 and the last fire was completed on April 15th. In just 11 total days the team finished 18 burns totaling 82.49 acres. Burns were conducted in ten grassland units, seven grassland/forest units, and one forest only unit.

Controlled burns are used as one of the land management tools to help keep Bernheim ecologically healthy. Hats off to burn team leader Rick Caldwell and the entire burn team for another great year.

Ronnie Moore helps lead a grassland burn.

The 1:30 costume parade will  usher in the magic of this” florabundant” season. Join in the fun and dress in your favorite  faerie/elf/ or smurf self ! You are never too old to stop believing in the magic of spring.  

In addition to the faerie festivities, Bernheim’s outstanding Volunteer Naturalists will  offer engaging  nature discovery stations.

Don’t forget to check out the  assortment of unique plants at our Spring Plant Sale!

I can’t wait until May18th!