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  • Poet Laureate of Kentucky is a title awarded to a Kentucky poet by the state's Art Council. In 2013, the position was occupied by Frank X Walker, the...
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    responsibilities of the state poets laureate are similar to those of the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and the equivalent Poet Laureate Consultant in...
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    Frank X Walker (category Poets Laureate of Kentucky)
    University of Kentucky and was the Poet Laureate of Kentucky from 2013 to 2015. Walker was born Frank Walker Jr., in Danville, Kentucky, the second of eleven...
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  • Jesse Stuart (category Poets Laureate of Kentucky)
    County, Kentucky, Stuart relied heavily on the rural locale of northeastern Kentucky for his writings. Stuart was named the poet laureate of Kentucky in 1954...
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    Crystal Wilkinson (category Poets Laureate of Kentucky)
    appointed Poet Laureate of Kentucky 2021. Born in Hamilton, Ohio, Crystal Wilkinson was brought to her grandparents' farm in Indian Creek, Kentucky (about...
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  • Sena Jeter Naslund (category Writers from Louisville, Kentucky)
    the same city. In 2005, Governor Ernie Fletcher named Naslund Poet Laureate of Kentucky. Sena Kathryn Jeter was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1942 to...
    6 KB (495 words) - 05:01, 31 December 2024
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    photographer, and Poet Laureate of Kentucky Commonwealth of Kentucky. Office of the Secretary of State. Land Office. "Sadieville, Kentucky". Accessed 26 August...
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    Gurney Norman (category Poets Laureate of Kentucky)
    Press of Kentucky), 1999. ISBN 0-8131-2099-3 Elliott, Allison (March 14, 2009). "Gurney Norman Named Kentucky Poet Laureate". University of Kentucky. Archived...
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    Ada Limón (category American poets of Mexican descent)
    28, 1976) is an American poet. On July 12, 2022, she was named the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States by the Librarian of Congress. This made her...
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    Jenkins. Jesse Stuart, author and former poet laureate of Kentucky JD Vance (born 1984), 50th vice president of the United States. Raised primarily in Breathitt...
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  • James Baker Hall (category Poets Laureate of Kentucky)
    arenas. In 2001, Hall was named the Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He was married to novelist and poet Mary Ann Taylor-Hall. He died on June...
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  • George Ella Lyon (category Poets Laureate of Kentucky)
    the Kentucky Women Writers Conference. She currently teaches writing through workshops, conferences, and author visits. Lyon served as Kentucky Poet Laureate...
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    Wayne, member of the Kentucky House of Representatives (1990–2019) Crystal Wilkinson, author, professor, and Poet Laureate of Kentucky Kentucky portal Bellarmine...
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  • American poet, novelist and folklorist. He lived most of his life in a log house along the Dead Mare Branch of Little Carr Creek, Knott County, Kentucky. He...
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  • Joy Bale Boone (category Poets Laureate of Kentucky)
    Award from the University of Kentucky in 1969. Finally, in 1997, Boone was honored by being named the Poet Laureate of Kentucky. Boone spent most her life...
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  • Gwendolyn Brooks (category Poets Laureate of Illinois)
    of Chicago, she was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968, a position she held until her death 32 years later. She was also named the U.S. Poet...
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  • Jim Wayne Miller (category Poets Laureate of Kentucky)
    faculty at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, sixty miles north of Nashville. While at Vanderbilt he studied under Fugitive poet Donald Davidson...
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  • Henry County, Kentucky George Ella Lyon (b. 1949, in Harlan, Kentucky), a Kentucky Poet Laureate James C. Klotter, a State Historian of Kentucky Nikky Finney...
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    1876. The town is also the birthplace of the first United States Poet Laureate Robert Penn Warren. As of the census of 2000, there were 1,469 people, 593...
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