WEKU - Public Radio
As part of my work for the Carnegie Center for Literacy & Learning, I interview Kentucky authors and poets for WEKU-FM's weekly news magazine program, Eastern Standard. Listen to the archive of interviews.
Kentucky Lantern
I have begun writing occasional opinion columns for Kentucky Lantern, an independent, nonpartisan, free news service based in Frankfort. Read my columns here.
Kentucky Monthly
As manager of the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame, I wrote profiles of each year's inductees for Kentucky Monthly magazine in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. Also for the magazine, I have written profiles of U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón and affordable housing developer Holly Wiedemann.
Bluegrass Renaissance
My daughter, Mollie Eblen, and I contributed a chapter to the book Bluegrass Renaissance: The History and Culture of Central Kentucky, 1792-1852, published in 2012 by the University Press of Kentucky. Our chapter, "Horace Holley and the Struggle for Kentucky's Mind and Soul," looked at the rise and fall of Transylvania University in the 1820s, a fascinating story that would foreshadow higher education's struggles in Kentucky for the next two centuries. In the Indiana Magazine of History, reviewer James S. Humphreys, associate professor of History at Murray State University, wrote, "The Eblens' chapter stands out as especially interesting and well-written even in a volume of excellent contributions." Read the Chapter. Buy the book.
Matthew Harris Jouett
I wrote the afterword for Estill Curtis Pennington's landmark biography and catalogue of the most celebrated portrait painter in Kentucky history. My essay put Jouett into the context of his time and place, early Lexington's "Athens of the West" period. During those first three decades of the 19th century, Lexington was one of the most important and cultured cities in what was then the western United States. Buy the book.
Garden & Gun
My 1986 portrait of Kentucky writer James Still was featured in the February/March 2016 issue of Garden & Gun with Lee Smith's article, Finding My Way Home, about how Still and Eudora Welty shaped her writing career. I took the portrait the day after Still's 80th birthday for a profile of him that I wrote for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He is shown standing outside a log cabin in Knott County, Kentucky, where he did much of his writing.
Yes!
I wrote When Poverty Was the Enemy, Not the Poor for the October 2014 issue of Yes! magazine. The article profiled two pioneers of the 1960s War on Poverty in Eastern Kentucky and looked at the legacy of their program.
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