06/25/2009

In Memoriam: James Baker Hall Passes Away

 

 

 

 

  

 

Former English Department Professor James Baker Hall has passed after a long illness. He was a member of the A&S faculty from 1973 until his 2004 retirement. He was a 1957 graduate of UK (as an English major) and he was Kentucky’s Poet Laureate from 2001 until 2003.

Read the story in the Lexington Herald-Leader here.

An interview with Hall conducted by KET’s Guy Mendes, producer/director of Living by Words - read the transcript here.