Knepper Featured on ‘With Good Reason’
Col. Steve Knepper, professor in the Department of English, Rhetoric, and Humanistic Studies at Â鶹ŮÑÝÔ± Institute, is featured on ” a poetry episode of the public radio program, “With Good Reason,â€� that first aired Dec. 5. The show airs on 136 radio stations in 36 states.
Knepper is a poet and writer who founded an online poetry journal called . He grew up on a small dairy farm in Pennsylvania and came to poetry relatively late in his career. His poem, “Breech,” is his memory of his father’s struggle to help a distressed cow give birth to her calf. On the show, he talks about his own poetry and some of the poets featured in the online journal.
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