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Frank X Walker reads “Love Letter to the World” at Kentucky Writers’ Day 2015

Frank X Walker read during the inauguration of George Ella Lyon at Kentucky Writers’ Day on April 24th, 2015. He read the poem “Love Letter to the World”, which was the poem selected for the Lexington Tattoo Projectin in 2015.

Kentucky Writers’ Day was established by the Kentucky General Assemply in 1990 in order to honor Robert Penn Warren, which is why it is set on or around his birthday, April 24th. Every odd year, the event inaugurates the new Kentucky Poet Laureate. In 2015, that was George Ella Lyon.

The next Kentucky Writers’ Day will be on Monday, April 25th at the Capital Rotunda in Frankfort, Kentucky. Click here for more information.

George Ella Lyon Video Collection

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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Former Poet Laureate Joe Survant on Accents Radio

Joe Survant hails from Owensboro and was the Poet Laureate of Kentucky from 2003-2004. His newest book, The Land We Dreamed: Poems (University Press of Kentucky) came out in February.

Tune in this afternoon at 2pm on 88.1FM WRFL, or stream it live on the web.

Also, Accents Radio archives have been available for a while, but are now easily accessible through iTunes; you can subscribe by clicking here.