Gurney Norman profiled

Kentucky's new poet laureate is devoted to nurturing Appalachian literature - Books - Macon.

You can almost imagine him as a young UK freshman, wearing his ROTC uniform, listening to UK senior Wendell Berry deliver remarks about T.S. Eliot during an English Club panel discussion. In the summer 2005 issue of Appalachian Heritage, Berry relates this first encounter with a young Norman and his ardent curiosity. After the talk concluded, the freshman walked up to the senior and said, "Now tell me more about this T.S. Eliot."  READ MORE ...