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Author Marc Harshman Talks Creativity, Climate Change And Appalachian Heritage
Ohio County author Marc Harshman has spent decades writing poetry and children’s books. He has served as West Virginia’s state poet laureate since 2012, and his 2023 poetry collection “Following the Silence”...
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsReverse Engineering Potato Candy And Talking with Ohio’s Poet Laureate, Inside Appalachia
Family recipes are a way to connect generations, but what happens when you’ve got grandma’s recipe, and it doesn’t have exact measurements? We also talk with Ohio poet laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour about Appalachia, poems — and getting published. And we revisit a story about an attraction at the confluence of the New and Gauley rivers — and the man who put it there.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOhio’s Poet Laureate And Our Song Of The Week On This West Virginia Morning
On this West Virginia Morning, Kari Gunter-Seymour is Ohio’s third poet laureate. Inside Appalachia Producer Bill Lynch spoke with Gunter-Seymour about poetry, getting published and the Appalachian part of Ohio.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsQ&A With Crystal Wilkinson: Kentucky’s New Poet Laureate
Crystal Wilkinson is Kentucky’s new poet laureate, the first Black woman to have this title in the state. She recently spoke with Inside Appalachia’s co-host Caitlin Tan. Wilkinson began by reading a poem that is an ode to tobacco and her grandfather. The poem is featured in her soon-to-be-released collection of poems, ‘Perfect Black.’
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May 18, 2012: Harshman Named West Virginia's Poet Laureate
On May 18, 2012, Governor Earl Ray Tomblin named Marc Harshman of Wheeling the state poet laureate. He succeeded the late Irene McKinney, who’d served in…
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