Reposted by Trenton Lee Stewart
What a lovely piece memorializing Donald "Skip" Hay, the 2006 Porter Prize winner.
"The story of Ark. literature can’t be told without taking a full account of Hays as both a writer and teacher."
arktimes.com
‘The University of Skip’: Remembering the late Arkansas writer Donald ‘Skip’ Hays - Arkansas Times
As a trailer park guy who never knew his biological father and was desperate for a decent male role model, in Skip I saw a rough-hewn blue-collar man’s man who was well-read without being precious, op...