LEXINGTON, Va. Dec. 9, 2025 — Col. Steve Knepper, professor in the Department of English, Rhetoric, and Humanistic Studies at Virginia Military Institute, is featured on " The Weight of a Whale”, a poetry episode of the public radio program, “With Good Reason,” that first aired Dec. 5. The show airs on 136 radio stations in 36 states.

Knepper is a poet and writer who founded an online poetry journal called New Verse Review: A Journal of Lyric and Narrative Poetry. He grew up on a small dairy farm in Pennsylvania and came to poetry relatively late in his career. His poem, "Breech," is his memory of his father's struggle to help a distressed cow give birth to her calf.  On the show, he talks about his own poetry and some of the poets featured in the online journal.

“With Good Reason” is sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Local broadcast times, as well as audio files of full programs and companion news features, are on the “With Good Reason” website.

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