Where I am From by Myself :) (Original poem by George Ella.

George Ella Lyon is a Kentucky author who has published in many genres, including picture books, poetry, juvenile novels, and articles. George Ella Lyon.

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In the summer of 1993, Kentucky poet George Ella Lyon started working on the piece that would become her award-winning and internationally acclaimed poem “Where I’m From” (see below).

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George Ella Lyon was born on April 25, 1949, in Harlan, Kentucky. She is an author who has published in many genre, including picture books, poetry, juvenile novels and articles. Her books often take place in Appalachia. She earned her B.A. at Centre College in Kentucky in 1971, her M.A. at the University of Arkansas in 1972 and her PhD at.

By George Ella Lyon 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 am from fudge and eyeglasses, from Imogene and Alafair. I'm from the know-it-alls.

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George Ella Lyon is the author of several books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. She has authored four poetry collections: Many-Storied House (The University Press of Kentucky, 2013), She Let Herself Go (The University Press of Kentucky, 2012), Back (Wind Publications, 2010), and Catalpa (Wind Publications, 1993).In 2015, she was appointed to the position as Kentucky poet laureate.

The Other George Melvyn Ella. The Puritanboard Most of my readers will be familiar with the on-line web-site The Puritanboard. The site often carries good, general articles of instruction and edification. At times, however, the contributors seem to be very strict and particular in their ecclesiastical views and their narrow understanding of church and denominational history. I have striven.

Where I’m From by Melanie Poonai. I am from a life filled with colour, From the chocolate brown that is my skin. I am from the sunshine yellow of my mother’s laugh, From the red and white of my brother’s favourite football shirt. I am from the crisp new white pages of a book, From the miserable grey of the street I live on. I am from green, pink and yellow; My garden in summer filled.

Where I'm From, a poem by George Ella Lyon, writer and teacher “Where I'm From” grew out of my response to a poem from Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet (Orchard Books, 1989; Theater Communications Group, 1991) by my friend, Tennessee writer Jo Carson. All of the People Pieces, as Jo calls them, are based on things folks actually said, and number 22 begins, “I want to know when you get to.

George Ella Lyon is the author of Trucks Roll!, Planes Fly!, and Boats Float!, cowritten with her son Benn.Among George Ella’s other books are the ALA Notable All the Water in the World and What Forest Knows.A novelist and poet, she lives with her family in Lexington, Kentucky.