Where I'm From As Kentucky's 2015-2016 poet laureate, George Ella wants to collect a "Where I'm From" poem from every county in Kentucky . Kentucky’s ‘Where I’m From’: A Poetry of Place” is the central theme of a project that will touch all 120 of Kentucky’s counties. Find more information, and how to submit poems, on the Kentucky Arts Council website . http://www.georgeellalyon.com/where.html Where I'm From I am from clothespins, from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride. I am from the dirt under the back porch. (Black, glistening, it tasted like beets.) I am from the forsythia bush the Dutch elm whose long-gone limbs I remember as if they were my own. I'm from fudge and eyeglasses, from Imogene and Alafair. I'm from the know-it-alls and the pass-it-ons, from Perk up! and Pipe down! I'm from He restoreth my soul ...
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