John W. McCauley will be at the Jesse Stuart Foundation on Tuesday, June 24, at 1 p.m. to sign copies of Kentucky is My Home: A Journey Into the Life of Jesse Hilton Stuart.
Following a coffee break, McCauley will deliver a 45-minute author talk that will begin at 2:30 p.m. The book signing, author talk, and meeting of the Regional Readers are free and open to the public.
If you wish to purchase a signed copy of this new book and you are unable to attend the book signing, call 606-326-1667 and ask for Jim, Debbie, or Judith. We will get your book signed, per your directions, and either ship it to you or hold it for you to pick up.
The JSF is pleased to announce the publication of Kentucky Is My Home: A Journey into the Life of Jesse Hilton Stuart, a collection of never before published Stuart poetry compiled, edited, and introduced by Lexington author John W. McCauley. A member of the JSF Board of Directors, McCauley spent a year wading through boxes of dusty, hand-written manuscripts searching for unpublished Stuart poems. His research included exhaustive efforts to identify poems that had never appeared in any print form.
McCauley writes, “The former Kentucky Poet Laureate was a pure and unfiltered artist of the written word, and while I love all genres of Stuart’s work, his Appalachian inspired poetry has always been my favorite.”
JSF CEO & Senior Editor James M. Gifford enthusiastically recommends this book. A true poet like Jesse Stuart sees into the conditions of mankind, so he was also a visionary and a teacher. Although Stuart excelled in many genres, he loved being a poet. His first two books were collections of poetry, and he would eventually publish eight more poetry collections among the more than 60 books he authored during his lifetime.
When Jim Gifford assumed the leadership of the Jesse Stuart Foundation in 1985, the first book published was Songs of a Mountain Plowman. Forty years have passed, and it seems appropriate to share another collection of Stuart’s unpublished poetry. This new book will continue to give life to Stuart’s poetry and to his legend as a world-famous author, a far-sighted conservationist, and a respected spokesman for the people of Appalachia.
Edwina Pendarvis, one of Appalachia’s finest poets and authors, offers her following endorsement for this new book: “This new poetry collection, Kentucky Is My Home: A Journey into the Life of Jesse Hilton Stuart, compiled and edited by John W. McCauley, is the first publication composed almost exclusively of previously unpublished poems by Jesse Stuart in almost half a century. It is not only important for the artfulness and impact of the poetry and as a record of thoughts and feelings of tone of the nation’s most prolific storytellers, but as a part of literary history.”
Kentucky Is My Home is available for $30 per copy in the JSF Bookstore at 4440 13th Street in Ashland. For more information or to place an order call 606-326-1667 or email jsf@jsfbooks.com.
John W. McCauley will be at the Jesse Stuart Foundation on Tuesday, June 24, at 1 p.m. to sign copies of Kentucky is My Home: A Journey Into the Life of Jesse Hilton Stuart.
Following a coffee break, McCauley will deliver a 45-minute author talk that will begin at 2:30 p.m. The book signing, author talk, and meeting of the Regional Readers are free and open to the public.
If you wish to purchase a signed copy of this new book and you are unable to attend the book signing, call 606-326-1667 and ask for Jim, Debbie, or Judith. We will get your book signed, per your directions, and either ship it to you or hold it for you to pick up.
The JSF is pleased to announce the publication of Kentucky Is My Home: A Journey into the Life of Jesse Hilton Stuart, a collection of never before published Stuart poetry compiled, edited, and introduced by Lexington author John W. McCauley. A member of the JSF Board of Directors, McCauley spent a year wading through boxes of dusty, hand-written manuscripts searching for unpublished Stuart poems. His research included exhaustive efforts to identify poems that had never appeared in any print form.
McCauley writes, “The former Kentucky Poet Laureate was a pure and unfiltered artist of the written word, and while I love all genres of Stuart’s work, his Appalachian inspired poetry has always been my favorite.”
JSF CEO & Senior Editor James M. Gifford enthusiastically recommends this book. A true poet like Jesse Stuart sees into the conditions of mankind, so he was also a visionary and a teacher. Although Stuart excelled in many genres, he loved being a poet. His first two books were collections of poetry, and he would eventually publish eight more poetry collections among the more than 60 books he authored during his lifetime.
When Jim Gifford assumed the leadership of the Jesse Stuart Foundation in 1985, the first book published was Songs of a Mountain Plowman. Forty years have passed, and it seems appropriate to share another collection of Stuart’s unpublished poetry. This new book will continue to give life to Stuart’s poetry and to his legend as a world-famous author, a far-sighted conservationist, and a respected spokesman for the people of Appalachia.
Edwina Pendarvis, one of Appalachia’s finest poets and authors, offers her following endorsement for this new book: “This new poetry collection, Kentucky Is My Home: A Journey into the Life of Jesse Hilton Stuart, compiled and edited by John W. McCauley, is the first publication composed almost exclusively of previously unpublished poems by Jesse Stuart in almost half a century. It is not only important for the artfulness and impact of the poetry and as a record of thoughts and feelings of tone of the nation’s most prolific storytellers, but as a part of literary history.”
Kentucky Is My Home is available for $30 per copy in the JSF Bookstore at 4440 13th Street in Ashland. For more information or to place an order call 606-326-1667 or email jsf@jsfbooks.com.
