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Worthington featured at Evening With Poets April 23
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Author Marianne Worthington is the featured poet. Worthington, a native of Knoxville, Tenn., is an educator living in Whitley County since 1990. She is co-founder and poetry editor of Still: The Journal, an online literary journal. She is former poetry editor and book reviews editor for Now amp; Then: The Appalachian Magazine. Her poetry chapbook, Larger Bodies Than Mine (Finishing Line Press, 2006), won the 2007 Appalachian Book of the Year in Poetry Award. Worthington s essays, reviews, poetry and feature articles have been published widely and anthologized most recently in The Southern Poetry Anthology: Volume VI, Tennessee, Her Limestone Bones, American Society: What Poets See, and Cornbread Nation.
Worthington received the Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council and is a grant recipient from the Kentucky Foundation for Women. She is associate professor of communication and journalism at University of the Cumberlands.