Episode 47 - Jeff Worley, Poet

Host Bill Goodman is joined by Jeff Worley – a Kentucky poet, former professor of English, and research magazine editor. Worley taught American literature in Germany for eight years through the University of Maryland’s European Division and later became an assistant professor of English at Penn State Altoona. After moving to Lexington, Worley joined the staff of Odyssey, the University of Kentucky’s research magazine, which he became the editor of in 1997. Having retired from UK in 2010, he still serves as a free-lance writer for magazines across the country. He is also a member of the Kentucky Humanities Speakers Bureau in which he performs poetry readings. On today’s episode, Worley reads some of his new poems and gives us a preview of his upcoming publication.