When Professor Wade Hall chose the poem “Blue Fall” for inclusion in The Kentucky Anthology: Two Hundred Years of Writing in the Bluegrass State in 2005, he referred to the “reclusive” Bruce Bennett Brown as “one of the least known of Kentucky’s important literary figures.” In fact, Brown’s obituary in 2016 makes

Quentin R. Howard is perhaps best remembered as the founder and editor of Wind, a nationally respected literary journal. To be fair, his reputation should not stop there. The Kentuckian who provided a forum for writers around the globe was himself a gifted story teller and poet.  Howard was born September

It was January in the El Nino winter of 1977 and Pike County lay prostrate under twelve inches of snow. The creeks were frozen, roads were closed, and all right-thinking humanity had retreated indoors. Nothing seemed to be stirring in this arctic landscape-except me. I was a mail carrier on

March Court Term 1822 Be it remember that at the house of Spencer Adkins on Monday the forth day of March in the years of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and twenty two( It being the first Monday in said month of March ). * The very first records