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The Road To Ballyvaughan

Raleigh-based poet Gibbons Ruark has been traveling to Ireland for more than 35 years. Along the way, he has walked the same paths as the country's literary greats like W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney.

In his new book, The Road to Ballyvaughan(Jacar Press/2015), Ruark assembles decades of his poetry that reflects the country's rich culture.

Host Frank Stasio talks with Ruark about his literary legacy and his personal passion for Ireland. Ruark reads at the Turkish House in Cary on December 9 at 7 p.m.

Charlie Shelton-Ormond is a podcast producer for WUNC.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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