In preparation for the current U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón’s upcoming reading at Transylvania University on Thursday, Nov. 10, I bought three of her most recent poetry books, “The Carrying” (2018),...

In 1991, South Carolina native Nikky Finney came to Lexington to perform at a poetry reading titled, “The Best of Southern Writing.”Before Finney, who is black, was added to the list of performers,...

Joy Priest had a folder full of poems but didn’t know she could be a poet. Priest had been a writer for as long as she could remember, but as an undergraduate student at UK, she hadn’t yet thought...