Richard Taylor’s answer to Katerina Stoykova-Klemer’s question: “What is the most important thing you teach your students?” Clip from Accents radio show on 11/27/2009. Complete show can be heard at www.katerinaklemer.com/audio/accents_112709.mp3

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Richard Taylor is a professor of English and currently serves as Kenan Visiting Writer at Transylvania University. A former Kentucky poet laureate, he is the author of six collections of poetry, two novels, and several books of non-fiction, mostly relating to Kentucky history. A former dean and teacher in the Governor’s Scholars Program, he was selected as Distinguished Professor at Kentucky State University in 1992. He has won two creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and an Al Smith Creative Writing Award from the Kentucky Arts Council. He and his wife Lizz own Poor Richard’s Books in Frankfort, Kentucky.

Richard Taylor is the author of Fading Into Bolivia from Accents Publishing