[5] In 2008, Crunk was chosen to represent Kentucky at the Library of Congress Poetry at Noon series.
[6] In 1994, his first collection of poetry, Living in the Resurrection, published in 1995, won that year's Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition.
[6] In the foreword, James Dickey noted that these poems spoke of a "quest" for a spiritual home, which Dickey located in the American South, the art being that of "Southern gospel music and homiletics.
[9] Crunk's 2010 New Covenant Bound is a collection of poems inspired by the displacement between 1935 and 1969 of some 20,000 inhabitants in order to create the Land Between the Lakes (then known as Land Between the Rivers) between the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers in western Kentucky and Tennessee.
[1] The collection centers around how the US federal government's seizure of this land affected the narrator's family.