Grade Levels:

9-adult

Length:

90 minutes

Taping Rights:

Unlimited

MARC Record:

Downloadable

Web Site:

KET Online

Teaching Materials:

See Below

Program Schedule and Streaming Links:

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Join five of Kentucky’s best-loved authors—Bobbie Ann Mason, Wendell Berry, Gurney Norman, Ed McClanahan, and James Baker Hall—for a celebration of creative writing. This 90-minute special features readings the five writers gave in the fall of 2001 as part of the 50th anniversary of the University of Kentucky’s Creative Writing Program.

Educational Use: Teachers will want to preview the program in advance. It is divided into “chapters” which allows for easier use in the classroom. Visit the Living by Words web site at for additional information about all five writers, essays on Kentucky’s literary tradition, and advice from the writers.

This program has been flagged because one poem has the word “s---.”

Program of Studies:
Reading: Forming a Foundation, Interpreting Text, Developing an Intial Understanding, Reflecting and Responding to Text, Demonstrating a Critical Stance
Arts and Humanities: Purposes for Creating the Arts, Humanity in the Arts, Interrelationships Among the Arts
Speaking, Listening, Observing