The public is invited to attend the 2025 Writers’ Day and Kentucky Poet Laureate Induction on Thursday, April 24, at 10 a.m. Eastern in the Capitol Rotunda in Frankfort. Writers’ Day is an annual celebration on or around the birthday of writer Robert Penn Warren, the first United States Poet Laureate who was born in Guthrie in Todd County. A public reception will follow.

This year’s Writers’ Day ceremony will include readings by Kathleen Driskell, Kentucky Poet Laureate for 2025 and 2026; Silas House, Kentucky Poet Laureate for 2023 and 2024; and the 2024 Kentucky Youth Poet Laureate Maira Faisal.

Following the Writers’ Day event there will be a Kentucky Poet Laureate reading beginning at 2 p.m. in the Brown-Forman Room of the Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History, 100 W. Broadway Street, Frankfort. The event will feature readings by Kathleen Driskell, Silas House, Maira Faisal, and former Kentucky poets laureate Jeff Worley, George Ella Lyon, Frank X Walker, Maureen Morehead, Sena Jeter Naslund, Joe Survant, and Richard Taylor. This event is presented by the Paul Sawyier Public Library.

Both events are free and open to the public.