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Standing in Your Story

Join us for an online writing workshop George Ella Lyon, former Poet Laureate of Kentucky. We’ll do exercises to help ground you in your story and to help you speak from your life today.

Read more about the Poets Laureate series here, featuring five poets in February and March.

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About George Ella Lyon

George Ella Lyon is a freelance writer and teacher, rooted in family and a wide community of writers and artists. Raised in Harlan County, Kentucky, Lyon writes poetry, picture books, fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, essays, and songs.

In 2015-2016, she served as Kentucky Poet Laureate, and in 2022, she was inducted into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame.

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