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Poet and musician Lou Turner is in to talk about their new collection TWIN LEAD LINES, which explores the life and music of Turner's distant cousin country music legend Little Jimmy Dickens, and her own life as a Nashville musician, working in a different genre/world as Dickens. we talk about developing the idea for poems about Dickens into a full book, the research that went into it which including a road trip into West Virginia, and how writing poems and writing songs are similar but different practices.
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