My wife, Janie, came early in life to her love of poetry and reading, a gift from her grandmother, Cora Lee Stull Blakeman. “Granny,” who attended a one-room school in the Appalachian section of Kentucky, could recite scores of poems “by heart,” by the likes of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Walt Whitman. Granny also knew the majestic poetry — and prose — of the King James Bible.