Saturday, February 11, 2012
Irene, Goodnight: West Virginia Loses A Poet
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Podcast Episode Summary
Irene McKinney- Poet Laureate of West Virginia- died February 4th. She wrote about the blessing and curse of living in a state with an abundance of natural resources. She railed at the idea that life in the Appalachian mountains was pastoral or calm because she knew the isolation and loneliness that rough terrain imposes on the people who live there. We close our show this week with this poem McKinney recorded by our partners at West Virginia Public Broadcasting
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