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Jane Gentry: Poetry of Place

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The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning will be hosting a reading to honor Jane Gentry, a former poet laureate of Kentucky. Hosted by Kasia Pater, the event will feature 19 Kentucky writers to read Jane’s work, some of which include Bobbie Ann Mason, George Ella Lyon, Mary Ann Taylor Hall, and Leatha Kendrick. In an interview with the Herald-Leader, Sue Churchill (one of the event’s organizers) said, “We don’t want this to have a funeral atmosphere. This is a celebration of the blessing that Jane brought to all of us and to this area of the country.” (source)

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The above audio clip is a snippet of an interview Jane had with Katerina on Accents Radio. The full interview can be found by clicking here.

When: Monday, February 9, 2015 @ 6pm
Where: The Carnegie Center
251 W. Second St.
Lexington, KY 40507

Jane Gentry Vance’s “Most Important Thing”

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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.