Episode 74 - Richard Hague - Cincinnati Poet Laureate
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Richard Hague discusses poetry, teaching, and environmental themes in his life and work.
Ep. 74 — Richard Hague on Poetry, Teaching, Appalachia, Extinction, and the Life of a Poem We start this week with news from Clermont County and around Ohio, including the legal challenge surrounding Amazon’s proposed data center campus in Wilmington, Clermont County’s tentative 2026 property values, Crossroads Church’s growing Base Camp property in Washington Township, the effort to dissolve the Village of New Richmond, and several issues discussed during the latest Batavia Village Council meeting. We also cover Pierce Township’s 2027 budget, possible uses for tax increment financing funds, public-safety expenses, road projects, and concerns about the township’s heavy reliance on property-tax revenue. Interview — Richard Hague Richard Hague joins the show to talk about poetry, teaching, Appalachia, the Ohio River Valley, environmental loss, and what it means to spend a lifetime reading and writing poems. Richard is the 2025–2027 Cincinnati and Mercantile Library Poet Laureate. Raised in Steubenville, Ohio, he came to Cincinnati to attend Xavier University and went on to teach literature and writing for decades at Purcell and Purcell Marian High School. He later served as a…
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