On April 24—Kentucky Writers’ Day (the birthday of the nation’s first poet laureate, Todd County native Robert Penn Warren)—Driskell was inducted as the Commonwealth’s poet laureate in a ceremony presided over by Gov. Andy Beshear in the marble rotunda of the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort. “I want to applaud our many and diverse Kentucky writers, especially contemporary Kentucky writers, as much as I can within and outside the state,” she said. “I believe when we engage our creativity, we’re being given access to the sacred, the divine,” she said. Richard Taylor is a former Kentucky poet laureate (1999-2001) and the author of several books, including Elkhorn: Evolution of a Kentucky Landscape.