Steve Flairty

Steve Flairty is a teacher, public speaker and an author of seven books: a biography of Kentucky Afield host Tim Farmer and six in the Kentucky’s Everyday Heroes series, including a kids’ version. Steve’s “Kentucky’s Everyday Heroes #5,” was released in 2019. He is a senior correspondent for Kentucky Monthly, a weekly NKyTribune columnist and a former member of the Kentucky Humanities Council Speakers Bureau.

Robert Penn Warren, a Kentucky native from Guthrie, became America’s first Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry in 1986.
By Steve Flairty
A historical marker identifies Robert Penn Warren's boyhood home in Guthrie, Kentucky. (Photo by Jennifer P. Brown, Hoptown Chronicle)