Publications:
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS:
“Mary Lee Settle.” The History of Southern Women’s Literature. Ed. Carolyn Perry and Mary
Louise Weaks. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2002. 503-507.
"Quilting." The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People,
Movements and Motifs. Ed. Joseph M. Flora and Lucinda MacKethan. Baton Rouge:
LSU Press, 2002, 701-702.
"Poets Nurturing Poets: Joy Bale Boone's Experience with Poetry Workshops and Other Poetry
Gatherings.” The Journal of Kentucky Studies 14 (1997): 82-86.
"An Interview with Kentucky Poet Joy Bale Boone." Border States: Journal of the Kentucky-
Tennessee American Studies Association 11 (1997): 46-53.
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at Kentucky Poet Joy Bale Boone." Kentucky Philological Review11
(1996): 6-7.
"Dispossession and Regeneration in Mary Lee Settle's Beulah Quintet." Southern Quarterly 35:1
(Fall 1996): 62-68.
"The Sense of Place in Joy Bale-Boone's Poetry." Kentucky English Bulletin 45:1 (1995): 68-73.
"Linking the Campus and the Community." California English 31:2 (1995): 10-11.
"The Loner and the Matriarchal Community in Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees and Pigs in
Heaven." Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South 5: 1 & 2 (1994): 155-164.
"KERA in the University." Southeastern Conference on English in the Two-Year College
Journal 27:2 (1994): 23-30.
"Everything I Need to Know I Learned on the Farm: Helping WKU-Glasgow Extended Campus
Students Develop a Sense of Pride in Their Rural Heritage.” Kentucky English Bulletin
43:2 (1994): 23-26.
"From the Classroom." The Council Chronicle: The National Council of Teachers of English
2:5 (1993): 3.
"From Religious Ritual to Family Ritual: The 'Holiness of Life' in Eudora Welty's Losing
Battles." Southern Folklore 47:3 (1990): 239-247.
Essay. “How About a Little Zest, As in Sports, for Helping Less Fortunate Among Us?" Your
Turn column," Courier-Journal, May 1986.
“Fifty Years After [Jesse] Stuart: Reading and Writing at Lincoln Memorial University."
Appalachian State University's Resource Center for Developmental Education, 1980.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
"Joy Bale Boone and the Power of Poetry." Women's Studies Conference. Murfreesboro,
Tennessee, February 22, 1997.
"The Motherless Daughter and the Daughterless Mother: Memory and Loss in Barbara
Kingsolver's Animal Dreams." Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. Louisville,
Kentucky, February 24, 1996.
"Chicago, Elizabethtown, Balewick, Lyme Regis, and Elkton: The Places in Joy Bale-Boone's
Life and Poetry" and "Thirteen Ways of Looking At Joy Bale-Boone: An Introduction."
Kentucky Philological Association Conference. Morehead, Kentucky, March 1, 1996.
"Dream, Reality, and Renewal in Mary Lee Settle's Beulah Quintet." Kentucky Philological
Association Conference. Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1995.
"The Female Loner in Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven.” Western
Kentucky University Women's Studies Conference. Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1994.
"Dispossession and Regeneration in Mary Lee Settle's Beulah Quintet." Kentucky Philological
Association Conference. Frankfort, Kentucky, 1994.
"KERA-Friendly Activities on the WKU-Glasgow Campus." KY Council of Teachers of
English/Language Arts Conference. Louisville, Kentucky, 1994.
"Three Women Peacemakers in Mary Lee Settle's Beulah Quintet." Western Kentucky
University's Women's Studies Conference. Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1993.
"Bird Women in Mary Lee Settle's Beulah Quintet." Western Kentucky University's Women's
Studies Conference. Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1992.
"From Religious Ritual to Family Ritual: The 'Holiness of Life' in Eudora Welty's Losing
Battles." WKU's Women's Studies Conference. Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1988.
"The Role of the Artist in Society in Mary Lee Settle's The Killing Ground.” Kentucky
Philological Association Conference. Morehead, Kentucky, March 1988.
"Scottish Writers Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott." South Central Kentucky Historical and
Genealogical Society meeting. Glasgow, Kentucky, May 1988.
"Kentucky Literature." With Jane Morris Murrey. South Central Kentucky Historical and
Genealogical Society meeting. Glasgow, Kentucky, August 1986.
"The History of the English Language." South Central Kentucky Historical and Genealogical
Society meeting. Glasgow, Kentucky, September 1985.
BOOK IN PROGRESS
A Guest on Earth: The Life and Poetry of Joy Bale Boone, Kentucky Poet Laureate, 1997-1999.
POETRY
Introduction for KY Poet Laureates Richard Taylor and James Baker Hall at the Southern
Kentucky Festival of Books, Bowling Green, April 20, 2002.
Rainstick Poetry Reading, Glasgow Musicale, January 20, 2002, Glasgow, KY.
Two-Day Children's Poetry Workshop, Barren County Christian Home Educators' Association,
WKU-Glasgow Campus, November 2 and 9, 2001.
Rainstick Poetry Reading, Mammoth Cave Wildflower Weekend, April 9, 2000, Mammoth Cave
National Park.
Poem “The Message” displayed at Special Blends Café, Glasgow, during Christmas season 1999.
Rainstick Poetry Reading, Mammoth Cave’s Wildflower Weekend, April 18, 1999, Mammoth
Cave National Park.
Introduction for KY Poet Laureates Joy Bale Boone and Richard Taylor at the first-ever poetry
reading of two KY poet laureates, Southern Kentucky Festival of Books, Bowling Green, April 17, 1999.
Rainstick Poetry Reading, Glasgow Musicale’s Easter Breakfast, April 3, 1999.
Letter to Editor. “Joy Bale Boone: Poet Laureate” in Glasgow Daily Times, April 24, 1998.
Poem "The Builder's Muse" read by KY Poet Laureate Joy Bale Boone, at KY Council of
Teachers of English/Language Arts concurrent session on poetry, Lexington, KY, February 14, 1998.
"Mid-Morning at Hazel's Truckstop." The Journal of Kentucky Studies 14 (1997): 15.
Two-Week Children's Poetry Workshop, Plum Tree Montessori School, Bowling Green, July
1996.
Organized "Rainstick" poetry group, led by KY Poet Laureate Joy Bale Boone, 1995-present.
DRAMA
Authored Travelers Just Passing Through, a one-act play based on a Frank and Jesse James
legend, produced October 1, 1988, by the Far-Off Broadway Players as part of
the Barren County Homecoming celebration.
Spoke to
Barren County High School drama class about play on May 11, 1992.
Co-authored with Tim Best On the Banks of Beaver Creek, a dramatized choral reading set to
music dealing with the organization and early history of Barren County's oldest church, produced November 6, 1988.
Directed Community Montessori School, Glasgow, production of The Wizard of Oz , spring
1995. Directed South Green Elementary, Glasgow, Japanese and English productions of Momotaro, the Peach Boy, May 1996.
ORAL HISTORY
"Oral History and How to Preserve It." Barren River Writers' Circle. Glasgow, KY, April 5,
2001.
"The History of Broomsedge Chronicles." South Central Kentucky Historical and Genealogical
Society. Glasgow, Kentucky, January 22, 1998.
Student Oral History Publication Broomsedge Chronicles, 1992-present, 19 issues.
FILM
A Woman Called Joy. Co-Producer and Researcher with Jerry Barnaby. Bowling Green, KY:
Western KY U. WKYU-TV Productions, 1997.
--Presented at 2000 joint meeting of Popular Culture Association in the South
and American Culture Association in the South, October
5, 2001, in Nashville, TN.
--Presented at Kentucky-Tennessee Border States chapter of the American Studies
Association Annual Meeting in Red Boiling Springs,
TN, April 1998.
--Presented at 20-Century Literature Conference in Louisville, KY, February 28, 1998.
--Aired on Kentucky Educational Television in February 1998.
--Aired on WKYU Educational Television in November 1997.
INTERNET
Broomsedge Chronicles: South Central Kentucky Living history, submission information, and
samples included on WKU English Department web site.