Indiana Poet Laureate Norbert Krapf answers a student's question following his reading in Center Hall on Monday.

"I have always believed that any story set deeply in one time and place, if told well, speaks for other times, places, and people. To put it another way, a sense of time and place travels and settles well. A life lived deeply anywhere resonates beyond the context of its specifics."

from The Ripest Moments: A Southern Indiana Childhood