I suppose you’ll forgive me for veering off into Kentucky:

YOUNG APPALACHIAN POETS AWARD. Hazard Community & Technical College is accepting submissions for next year’s Young Appalachian Poets Award. Anyone who’d like more information can contact Scott Lucero at (606) 487-3200 or at Scott.Lucero@kctcs.edu and can check out the MySpace pages at http://www.myspace.com/eveningwithpoets and http://www.myspace.com/kudzumagazine.
Monica Silvera, a high school senior from Oak Ridge, Tenn., was this year’s winner. Her poem, “Misfortunes in a Bathroom Stall,” will appear in the college’s literary magazine, Kudzu.

GOOD READS. Candace Chaney at The Lexington Herald-Leader has a good read headlined “A Man of His Words,” all about Gurney Norman, Kentucky’s new poet laureate. Also, read a great op-ed piece in the Herald-Leader about Norman by Rebecca Gayle Howell, who teaches at Morehead State University. Visit the Kentucky poet laureate Web site. Norman will serve as poet laureate for the 2009-2010 term.

AUDIO: JIM WEBB ON POETRY AND GURNEY NORMAN. Download here or just listen an archived show from WMMT FM 88.7, Mountain Community Radio.

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