Jane Gentry Vance’s answer to Katerina Stoykova-Klemer’s question: “What is the most important thing you teach your students?” Clip from Accents radio show on 11/13/2009. Complete show can be heard at katerinaklemer.com/audio/accents_111309.mp3

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Jane Gentry Vance has published two full-length collections of poetry, A Garden in Kentucky and Portrait of the Artist as a White Pig, from Louisiana State University Press. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Sewanee Review, Hollins Critic, Harvard Magazine, New Virginia Review, Southern Poetry Review, and The American Voice. She was Kentucky’s Poet Laureate from 2007 to 2008.