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Accents Radio 05/16/14: Richard Taylor

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Dr. Richard Taylor will sit down with Katerina today to discuss his newest collection, Rain Shadow (2014 Broadstone Books), among other things.

Taylor is also the author of Accents Publishing’s Fading into Bolivia. He will also join Eric Scott Sutherland and Maurice Manning as guest speakers at this month’s Holler Poets Series at Al’s Bar.

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Richard Taylor, a past Poet Laureate of Kentucky, is Kenan Visiting Writer at Transylvania University in Lexington. A co-owner of Poor Richard’s Books in Frankfort, he lives outside of that town in a one-hundred-and-fifty-year-old house near Elkhorn Creek, where he kayaks every chance he gets. Author of two novels and several non-fiction books relating to Kentucky history, Rain Shadow is his ninth book of poetry. He is a former distinguished professor of English at Kentucky State University and the recipient of numerous awards, including two creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.

(Biography from Broadstone Books’ website)

Richard Taylor’s “Most Important Thing”

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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