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VIDEO: Local man composes ‘Poems 4 Free,’ to strangers around Lexington

Bryce Towle, TikTok Manager November 28, 2024

He’s a poet and he certainly knows it! Curtis Kaiser becomes wiser with each poem he will write, typing away in downtown Lexington during the night. Kaiser is a Lexington man who spends some of his...

Ada Limon poses for a portrait on Monday, May 16, 2022, at Limon's house in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo provided by Michael Clubb | Lexington Herald-Leader

An appreciation for U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón ahead of her visit to Lexington

Karrington Garland, Reporter October 21, 2022

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),...

University of Kentucky English professor Frank X Walker poses for a portrait in his office on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020, at the Patterson office tower in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Michael Clubb | Staff

‘We’re here’: Affrilachian Poets make visible the African Americans in Appalachia

Akhira Umar March 17, 2020

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, a 2012 UK alumna, was recently award the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry for her manuscript, Horsepower. Photo provided by Joy Priest. 

UK alumna, Louisville native wins Donald Hall Prize for Poetry

Bailey Vandiver July 18, 2019

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...

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