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Think Humanities episodes
- Episode 81 - Frank X Walker, PoetApril is National Poetry Month, and Kentucky Humanities is celebrating with a poem a day from Kentucky’s most celebrated poets, including Frank X Walker. Walker is the former Kentucky Poet Laureate and is a Professor of English at the University of Kentucky. He is a co-founder of the Affrilachian Poets and coined the term "Affrilachia."36 min
- Episode 81 - Frank X Walker, PoetApril is National Poetry Month, and Kentucky Humanities is celebrating with a poem a day from Kentucky’s most celebrated poets, including Frank X Walker. Walker is the former Kentucky Poet Laureate and is a Professor of English at the University of Kentucky. He is a co-founder of the Affrilachian Poets and coined the term "Affrilachia."36 min
- Episode 81 - Frank X Walker, PoetApril is National Poetry Month, and Kentucky Humanities is celebrating with a poem a day from Kentucky’s most celebrated poets, including Frank X Walker. Walker is the former Kentucky Poet Laureate and is a Professor of English at the University of Kentucky. He is a co-founder of the Affrilachian Poets and coined the term "Affrilachia."36 min
- National Poetry Month - Frank X Walker 4/25Frank X Walker, Professor of English at the University of Kentucky and former Kentucky Poet Laureate, reads his poem “Thumbwrestlers” in honor of his father.3 min
- National Poetry Month - Jeff Worley 4/24Kentucky Poet Laureate, Jeff Worley, recites "Whiteness" by his favorite poet, Stephen Dunn. Worley favors this poem for his imagery and connection of nature’s beauty.3 min
- National Poetry Month - Richard Taylor 4/23Professor of English at Transylvania University and former Kentucky Poet Laureate, Dr. Richard Taylor, reads one of his own poems titled “Night Driving.”3 min
- National Poetry Month - Tasha Cotter 4/22Tasha Cotter, president of the Kentucky State Poetry Society, reads “Try to Praise the Mutilated World” by Polish poet Adam Zagajewski.3 min
- National Poetry Month - Jeremy Paden 4/21Dr. Jeremy Paden, professor of Spanish at Transylvania University, recites “The Wisdom of Insecurity” by Vassar Miller.3 min
- National Poetry Month - Kathleen Driskell 4/20Kathleen Driskell, director of the Spalding University MFA program, recites one of her own poems, titled “Why I Mother You the Way I Do.”3 min
- National Poetry Month - Frank X Walker 4/19Frank X Walker, Professor of English at the University of Kentucky and former Kentucky Poet Laureate, reads “Praisesong for a Mountain” by Bianca Lynne Spriggs.3 min
About Think Humanities
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Kentucky Humanities is an independent, nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, D.C. The Council is supported by the National Endowment and by private contributions. We are not a state agency, and we receive no state funds, but we are proud partners with Kentucky's cultural, heritage, arts, and tourism agencies.
Why are we Telling Kentucky's Story?
More than just history, by Kentucky's story we mean Kentucky's writers, inventors, judges, musicians, architects, doctors – in short, the contributions from every walk of life to the quality of life in Kentucky. We recognize a need to build civic engagement as well as literacy, and we want to involve all ages and all places from Pine Knot to Princeton. Everyone has a story to tell, and everyone can learn from the stories of others. These stories, taken together, are the stories of our communities, our counties, our regions, and our unique Kentucky culture and heritage. They are the basis of our pride and the basic premise of community.
What are the Humanities?
Humanity in all its forms. The humanities are the values by which we live, the ideas that organize our thinking, and all of the ways we communicate with each other. The humanities include the ways of knowing found in the academic disciplines of history, literature, and philosophy, as well as anthropology, sociology and psychology. But they encompass much more: religion, culture, the origins of Bluegrass music, the archaeology of landfills, Kentuckians' love for their counties, what they teach their children, why they make burgoo. All these things are the humanities.