From the battlefields of Vietnam to the pages of powerful verse, Covington-born poet R.L. Barth has spent a lifetime turning his lived experiences into art that refuses to look away from the truth. Behringer-Crawford Museum’s next NKY History Hour will feature his remarkable journey on Tuesday, October 7, at 6:30 p.m. via Zoom and Facebook Live in “A NKY Voice in Vietnam: The Poems of R.L. Barth.”

R.L. (Robert) Barth, a Covington-born poet, Marine veteran of Vietnam and former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, will share his extraordinary journey from growing up in Erlanger, Kentucky and graduating from Covington Catholic High School to enlisting in the U.S. Marine Corps. At just 21 years old, Barth led his first patrol as a corporal with the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, ens

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