Forget Beauty by Katy Giebenhain poetry... 5
Signs of the Times... 6
The Poets...21
Letters to the Editor by Jamie Ross and Ross Spears, Barbara Ellen Smith, Steve Fisher, Emily Satterwhite, and Phillip Obermiller... 22
Midwife by Kathy Whitson poetry...27
Light (For Lucille Clifton) by Glenis Redmond poetry...34
Churn by Glenis Redmond poetry...35
Comfort Food by Glenis Redmond poetry...35
“Do What Lights Your Fire”: An Interview with Ron Lewis by Ashley Brewer, Donna Corriher, Jesse Edgerton, Hannah Furgiuele, Coty Hogue, Rebecca Jones, Blaze Edward Pappas, Shannon Perry, with Patricia D. Beaver... 36
Animal Husbandry by Leatha Kendrick poetry...55
Industrialization’s Threat to Vocational Calling in Denise Giardina’s Storming Heaven by Martha Greene Eads...56
Miss Hydraulic Fracturing by Katy Giebenhain poetry...71
Gay Liberation Comes to Appalachian State University (1969-1979) by Kathryn Staley...72
“The Place You Go to Tell the Truth”: Gender in Irene McKinney’s Vivid Companion by Boyd Creasman... 92
Health Insurance in the USA by Katy Giebenhain poetry... 106
Apron by Kathy Whitson poetry... 107
Grooves in the Record: An Interview with Crystal Wilkinson by Ashley Brewer, Donna Corriher, Jesse Edgerton, Hannah Furgiuele, Coty Hogue, Rebecca Jones, Blaze Edward Pappas, Shannon Perry, with Patricia D. Beaver... 108
On Reading Cormac McCarthy’s The Road by Harold Branam poetry...125
Review Essays
- Willa Cather’s Sapphira And The Slave Girl in Appalachian Context: A Review Essay by John C. Inscoe...126
- Southern West Virginia and the Contradiction of Coal: A Review Essay on Rebecca R. Scott’s Removing Mountains by J. Todd Nesbitt...136
- Seasonal Disorders: Deep Gap by Lynn Doyle poetry...141
- Winter Triptych by John York poetry... 142
- Squirrel Woman by John York poetry...145
- “Trying to Put Socks on an Octopus”: Reviewing James Agee by Donald Secreast...146
- Moments of Grace on Fields and Streams in Don Johnson’s Here and Gone by David L. Vanderwerken... 150
Reviews
- Thomas Dublin on Deep Down: A Story from the Heart of Coal Country, directed by Jen Gilomen and Sally Rubin...158
- Paul Salstrom on Managing the Mountains: Land Use Planning, the New Deal, and the Creation of the Federal Landscape in Appalachia by Sara M. Gregg...159
- Roberta M. Campbell on To Right These Wrongs: The North Carolina Fund and the Battle to End Poverty and Inequality in 1960s America by Robert R. Korstad and James L. Leloudis and Freedom on the Border: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky by Catherine Fosl and Tracy E. K’Meyer...62
- Glenna H. Graves on Work and Faith in the Kentucky Coal Fields: Subject to Dust by Richard J. Callahan, Jr...165
- Carl Lindahl on Tales of Kentucky Ghosts by William Lynwood Montell...166
- John Lang on Ancestors and Others: New and Selected Stories by Fred Chappell... 168
- Sharon Hatfield on Goosetown: Reconstructing an Akron Neighborhood by Joyce Dyer... 171
- Shannon Perry on Belonging: A Culture of Place by bell hooks...172
- Amy Tipton Cortner on I Wonder As I Wander: The Life of John Jacob Niles by Ron Pen...175
- Jim Minick on Waking by Ron Rash...177
- Diane Simmons on Out of the Mountains: Appalachian Stories by Meredith Sue Willis...179
- Christina Bolgiano on The Blueberry Years: A Memoir of Farm and Family by Jim Minick...181
- Jeff Mann on The Un-Natural State: Arkansas and the Queer South by Brock Thompson...182
- Theresa L. Burriss on Finding Sara: A Daughter’s Journey by Margaret Edds...184
- John Lang on Understanding Charles Wright by Joe Moffett... 186
- Steven E. Nash on A Mountaineer in Motion: The Memoir of Dr. Abraham Jobe, 1817-1906, edited by David C. Hsiung... 188
- Chris Green on Appalachian Journal Edition of The Southern Mountaineer in Fact and Fiction by Cratis D. Williams... 189
The Lines Beneath by Denton Loving poetry...192
To Be Chosen, Not by Denton Loving poetry...193
Chronicle...194
Appalachia By The Numbers........................................................................................................................ 202
