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Robinson Jeffers: Appalachian, Californian, Poet, Ted Olson
Robinson Jeffers: Appalachian, Californian, Poet, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Excerpt: April is also National Poetry Month, and this column will focus on an April-themed poem—not one of the many April poems evincing sincere religiosity or forced sentimentality, and not that famous poem that cynically asserts that “April is the cruelest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land.
James Still: The Dean Of Appalachian Literature, Ted Olson
James Still: The Dean Of Appalachian Literature, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Excerpt: James Still (1906-2001) wrote “Heritage,” his signature poem, in 1935, and he continued to read it before audiences large and small into the 21st Century.