Since George Ella Lyon was officially inducted as Kentucky’s Poet Laureate yesterday, I thought it’d be fun to take a look at some of the poems she’s read, in video form, as well as interviews about craft.

For more information about the induction ceremony, WMKY’s Paul Hitchcock had a nice write-up that you can read here.

An Interview made for the exhibit “Reading Appalachia: Vocies from Children’s Literature” at the Museum of East Tennessee History

George Ella Lyon on “Head of the Holler” from Berea College

Also, here’s a neat video made by a student at Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, California based on what is arguably George Ella Lyons’s most famous poem, “Where I’m From”, which you can read here.

Also, here are all of the other posts we’ve made about George Ella Lyon:

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