"The Canonization of Jesse Stuart" by Edwin T. Arnold. "A Lost Generation: The Appalachia of Breece D'J Pancake" by Ellesa Clay High."The High-Pitched Laugh of a Sainted Crazy" by Donald Secreast. "Modern and Contemporary Mountain Poetry: A Bibliography" by Rita Quillen.
Poetry by Peter D. Zivkovic ("In the Name of the Son and the Holy Ghost") and Jeff Daniel Marion ("Panther" and "Fall").
Book reviews by Burton L. Purrington (The Cherokee Indian Nation: A Troubled History and Journal of Cherokee Studies both ed. by Duane H. King ), Bill Ellis (The Garden Seed Inventory ed. by Kent Whealy), Thomas R. Shannon (Does Who Governs Matter? and Political Elites and Social Change both ed. by Moshe M. Czudnowski), Zohara Boyd (Sick of Shadows and Lovely in Her Bones by Sharyn McCrumb), John Morefield (Everybody's Grandpa by Louis M."Grandpa" Jones with Charles K. Wolfe), Charles Joyner (Dulcimer Maker: The Craft of Homer Ledford by R. Gerald Alvey), Pete Daniel (The Electric Valley, a James Agee Film Project Production, produced, directed and written by Ross Spears), Edwin T. Arnold (Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy), and Robert J. Higgs (Familiar Ground by Elizabeth Cox).
Letters to the editor, "Signs of the Times" and "Chronicle."