Volume 48 Numbers 1-2 ● FALL 2020 / WINTER 2021 (available now) 

Letter to the Editor by Michael Maloney

SIGNS OF THE TIMES

THE POETS

POETRY

Shadow of the Valley, poem by Michael McFee
When, poem by Michael McFee
First Hard Frost, poem by Jim Minick
May-Apples, poem by Mary Anna Dunn
A Boat Called Kinfolks, poem by Jim Minick
A bolt of cranberry, poem by Mary Lynn White
Liberry, poem by Michael McFee
The Wind, poem by William R. Heath
The Tornado, poem by William R. Heath
Driving Down I-75, poem by Susan Mitchell
Unlimited Opportunities Statewide, poem by Gilbert Allen
Ashe County Easter, 1880, poem by John York
Festival, poem by Michael McFee

RESEARCH
Economic Change and Perceptions of Health in Two Coalfield-Adjacent Appalachian Counties, circa 1950-2019
by Jessica Taylor and Emily Satterwhite

INTERVIEW
“A Connection to the World”: An Interview with Kayla Rae Whitaker by Robert Gipe

REVIEW ESSAYS
Advancing the Field: “Living Varieties” of Appalachian Speech by Anita Puckett
            [review of Appalachian Englishes in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Kirk Hazen]

Poetry and Music: Keith Flynn’s The Skin of Meaning by Patrick Bizzaro

REVIEWS
Paul Salstrom on Shelter from the Machine: Homesteaders in the Age of Capitalism by Jason G. Strange

John Lang on Heeding the Call: A Study of Denise Giardina’s Novels by William Jolliff

Amy Tipton Cortner on Deep in the Earth: A Novel by Mary Bozeman Hodges

Aaron Lee Moore on The Solar-Powered Southern Belle by Donald Secreast

Phoebe Ann Pollitt on A Special Place: St. Mary’s Hospital School of Nursing, Clarksburg, West Virginia, 1905-1969, A History, Compiled and edited by Barbara W. Flewellyn

Linda Parsons on Wanting Radiance: A Novel by Karen Salyer McElmurray

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