Kent Fielding (right) – educator, editor, poet, activist – co-founded White Fields Press and the literary renaissance with Ron Whitehead in 1992. Fielding is an Honorary Kentucky Colonel, a BP Teacher of Excellence, an Alaska Teacher of the Year Finalist, 2021 Alaska Speech and Debate Coach of the Year. He has taught in the Marshall Islands, at Jefferson Community College, University of Alaska Southeast, Mt. Edgecumbe, Skagway High School, and at summer institutes in Turkey and Latvia. Author of a book of poetry, Chief Iffuccan, a chapbook, The Revolution is About to Begin, and a broadside “Museums” (Cheek Press 2023), his work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Asheville Poetry Review, The Jefferson Review, Pavement Saw, Modern Haiku, The Beat Scene, Frisk Magazine, Boog Literature, Night Owl Narrative: A Cajun Mutt Rag, and Tidal Echoes, among others. This will be his 11th Insomniacathon.
Jackson Kinkead (left) is a Louisville native and the Executive Director of the Chapel Of St Philip Neri. He is an antidisiplinary creative entrepreneur and artist moving across mediums of independent film, experimental music, physical labor, cooperative institutions, commons-building social practice, and more. He received a project grant from The National Endowment of the Arts in 2022 with NAVEL LA for ASSEMBLIES, which were pod-based learning groups for artists. The Chapel Of St Philip Neri is currently his main project, a communally engaged process into meaning making in urban secular space through the transition and redevelopment of the dechurched cathedral on 236 Woodbine. He received a bachelor's of documentary Journalism from University of Missouri in 2020.
The Chapel of St. Philip Neri, the global literary renaissance, and Ron Whitehead presents Insomniacathon 2024: The Last Insomniacathon – a 57-hour nonstop music, poetry, performance art festival, taking place at the Chapel of St. Philip Neri, 236 Woodbine Street Louisville, KY, from July 26th-July 28th, featuring over 100 poets, over 30 bands and musicians, and various art films, including performances by Lipstick Wars (more than slam poetry https://lipstickwars.com/), Lee Pennington (author of 21 books, nominated for 3 Pulitzers), Ashley Farmer (author of DEAR DAMAGE, winner of the International Rubery Book Award), Ron Whitehead (National Lifetime Beat Poet Laureate), Frank Messina (award-winning poet, artist, actor) and bands including Bill Clark & Route 15 Band, Creeps Incorporated, Shark Sandwich, Tall Squares, Lapsis, and many others from across the USA. For a full schedule and online tickets please see https://stphilipcampus.org/insomniacathon-2024/.