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Off The Record: Ron Whitehead
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This week’s Off The Record guest is Ron Whitehead. His latest book is titled The Storm Generation Manifesto and it’s release will be celebrated this Thursday at The Green Building. He will also be holding a poetry/music event at The Rudyard Kipling on August 27. According to his bio:
Ron Whitehead is a poet, writer, editor, publisher, organizer, scholar, professor. The son of Edwin and Greta Whitehead, he grew up on a farm outside of Centertown, population 323, in Ohio County, western Kentucky. He graduated from Ohio County High School in 1968. He attended Georgetown College, Western Kentucky University, The University of Louisville, and Oxford University (England). As undergraduate and graduate student he was the recipient of numerous scholarships, grants, fellowships, awards, and prizes including The Dean’s Graduate School Citation at UofL and The English Speaking Union’s Oxford Scholar Award plus the Joshua B. Everett Oxford Scholar Award. At Oxford he studied with Dr. Valentine Cunningham, Head of English Literature, at Oxford’s International Graduate School. As poet and writer he is the recipient of numerous state, national, and international awards/prizes including The All Kentucky Poetry Prize and The Yeats Club of Oxford’s Prize for Poetry. In 2004 he was inducted into Ohio County High School’s Hall of Fame. In 2006 Dr. John Rocco (NYC) nominated Ron for The Nobel Prize in Literature. (Read more at Ron’s official website.)
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Here are Ron’s five picks:
- Jimi Hendrix: All Along The Watchtower
- Led Zeppelin: Communication Breakdown
- Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah
- Sarah Elizabeth: Alcohol And Pills
- Johnny Cash: Ring Of Fire
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