The next edition of One to One with Bill Goodman features a tribute to the former Kentucky Poet Laureate, the late James Baker Hall. Appearing on the program are his wife, Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, who is also a writer, and Hall's good friend, novelist, professor and current Poet Laureate, Gurney Norman. The program airs Sunday, Aug. 3 0 at 1 p.m./noon CT on KET1 and Tuesday, Sept. 1 at 7:30/6:30 p.m. CT on KET2.
Hall, who taught at Stanford, New York University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Connecticut and served as director of the University of Kentucky's Creative Writing Program, died this year at the age of 74.
Norman discusses meeting Hall for the first time and tells stories about their decades-long friendship. Taylor-Hall reveals some of her husband's passions beyond writing, including Dancing with the Stars and U.K. basketball. The guests also share several of Hall's photographs of his tight-knit circle of friends, including Kentucky writers Wendell Berry, Bobbie Ann Mason and Ed McClanahan.
The program also includes a segment of the 2002 KET production Living by Words, in which Hall reads a poem titled "The First Winter Light."
One to One with Bill Goodman is a KET production, produced by Goodman and Cindy Asher. Following the broadcast, One to One is available for on-demand videostream viewing at www.ket.org/onetoone and podcasting at www.ket.org/rss.
