Volume 50 Numbers 3-4 ● 2023
SIGNS OF THE TIMES
with illustrations by Annie Greenwood
THE POETS
POEMS
- Whirligig by Brian Beatty
- Blessings by Caleb Johnson
- Considering a House Wren on the Back Deck by Caleb Johnson
- False Spring by Caleb Johnson
- Pileated Woodpecker by Caleb Johnson
- An Appalachian in-migrant tale of sorts by Gene Hyde
- Congregants at Stony Fork by Gene Hyde
- Suburban Blue Ridge Blues by Gene Hyde
- Loss up late by Kari Gunter-Seymour
- Next time someone asks by Kari Gunter-Seymour
- Mountaintop Removal by Rania Zuri
ARTICLES
History
Black in Appalachia by Enkeshi El-Amin and William Isom II
History | Herstory
Lula Owl Gloyne: The First Cherokee Field Nurse, and Public Health in Native Appalachia by Laurel Sanders
History
Telling Stories: What Oral Histories Reveal About Mountain People and Mountain Lives by Elizabeth McRae and Alexander Macaulay
Literature
Kentucky Writer Silas House Builds a Reputation and a Fan-Base by Jerry W. Williamson
Music Review
Tyler Childers’ “In Your Love”: A New Look at Appalachia by Chelsea Brislin and Revell Carr
Review Essay
Defined Attention: Robert Morgan’s “Oratorio” by Robert West
BOOK REVIEWS
- Rachael Fortune on Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore & Everyday Culture in Appalachia by Emily Hilliard
- G. Samantha Rosenthal on Tar Hollow Trans: Essays by Stacy Jane Grover
- Lana Whited on Fairytales of Appalachia edited by Stacy Sivinski
- Sammy Osmond on A Year Without Months by Charles Dodd White
- Catherine Pritchard Childress on With Access to Tools by Dana Wildsmith
- Ernest Lee on Said-Songs: Essays on Poetry and Place by Jesse Graves
- Thomas Alan Holmes on Summer Words: New & Selected Poems by David Salner
CHRONICLE
APPALACHIA BY THE NUMBERS
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