Appalachian Journal

Volume 48 Numbers 1-2 ● FALL 2020 / WINTER 2021

CONTRIBUTORS…3
Shadow of the Valley, poem by Michael McFee…5
Letter to the Editor by Michael Maloney…6
May-Apples, poem by Mary Anna Dunn…7
SIGNS OF THE TIMES…8
THE POETS…23

POETRY

• When, poem by Michael McFee…24
• First Hard Frost, poem by Jim Minick…25
• A Boat Called Kinfolks, poem by Jim Minick…61
• A bolt of cranberry, poem by Mary Lynn White…80
• Liberry, poem by Michael McFee…81
• The Wind, poem by William R. Heath…88
• The Tornado, poem by William R. Heath…89
• Driving Down I-75, poem by Susan Mitchell…99
• Unlimited Opportunities Statewide, poem by Gilbert Allen…117
• Ashe County Easter, 1880, poem by John York…118
• Festival, poem by Michael McFee…128

RESEARCH

• Economic Change and Perceptions of Health in Two Coalfield-Adjacent Appalachian Counties, circa 1950-2019 by Jessica Taylor and Emily Satterwhite…26

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]…82
• Poetry and Music: Keith Flynn's The Skin of Meaning by Patrick Bizzaro…90

REVIEWS

• Paul Salstrom on Shelter from the Machine: Homesteaders in the Age of Capitalism by Jason G. Strange…100
• John Lang on Heeding the Call: A Study of Denise Giardina's Novels by William Jolliff…102
• Amy Tipton Cortner on Deep in the Earth: A Novel by Mary Bozeman Hodges…105
• Aaron Lee Moore on The Solar-Powered Southern Belle by Donald Secreast…108
• 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…112
• Linda Parsons on Wanting Radiance: A Novel by Karen Salyer McElmurray…113

CHRONICLE…120
APPALACHIA BY THE NUMBERS…130

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