Volume 50 Numbers 1-2 ● 2023
SIGNS OF THE TIMES ... 6
with illustrations by Annie Greenwood
THE POETS ... 24
POEMS
- Clearcut by Gil Allen ... 5
- privacy, please by Kelsey Day ... 25
- Field Notes from the Anthropocene by Kelsey Day ... 34
- Christmas Eve 2021, Santa Rosa Beach, Florida by Melissa Helton ... 35
- After Breakfast, Knott County, 2007 by Ian Hall ... 64
- Pilgrim by Ian Hall ... 122
- Burning Burning Bush by Gil Allen ... 157
- it's easy to live in the apocalypse by Kelsey Day ... 166
ARTICLES
IN MEMORIAM
- Travels with Helen--Helen Matthews Lewis (1924-2022) by Patricia D. Beaver ... 26
ART & HISTORY
HISTORY | HERSTORY
- Searching for Rebecca Boone by Patricia L. Hudson ... 66
FIRST PERSON - NONFICTION
- Biography of a Body, Parts III & IV: Unpublished Manuscript by Harriette Simpson Arnow ... 88
with an Introduction by Sandra L. Ballard
REVIEW ESSAYS
- Examining the Breadth of Horace Kephart’s Work [On Horace Kephart: Writings, edited by George Frizzell and Mae Miller Claxton], by Erin M. Presley ... 124
- Coming of Age in the Opioid Era: Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead by Lana Whited ... 128
BOOK REVIEWS
- John M. Glen on So Much to Be Angry About: Appalachian Movement Press and Radical DIY Publishing, 1969-1979 by Shaun Slifer ... 134
- Robyn Seamon on Ailing in Place: Environmental Inequities and Health Disparities in Appalachia by Michele Morrone ... 136
- Sarah Beth Hopton on Enchanted Ground: The Spirit Room of Jonathan Koons by Sharon Hatfield ... 139
- Steve Trinkle on Desperate: An Epic Battle for Clean Water and Justice in Appalachia by Kris Mahr ... 142
- Diane Gilliam on The Tillable Land: Poems by Melva Sue Priddy ... 144
- Jonathan Greene on The Collected Breece D’J Pancake: Stories, Fragments, Letters, Introduction by Jayne Anne Phillips ... 145
- Susan O’Dell Underwood on Call it Horses by Jessie van Eerden ... 149
- John Lang on Robert Morgan: Essays on the Life and Work, edited by Robert M. West and Jesse Graves ... 152
- Kevin W. Young on Traces: A Novel by Patricia L. Hudson ... 154
CHRONICLE ... 158
APPALACHIA BY THE NUMBERS ... 168
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