Little objects touch something tucked far away in the recesses of our hearts
…— circa 1960, holding two cups at full capacity — had resided in our Tupperware bin of dry dog food. Reese came to eagerly anticipate the sound of aluminum raking…
Ben Anderson chronicles a year in the Smokies
…intimate essays capture the essence of the park and awaken the desire to follow Ben Anderson into the primeval forest. Lyda Phillips is a veteran journalist who grew up in…
In Jennifer Haigh’s new novel, Heat and Light, energy companies choose profits over safety
…Heat and Light, addresses the calamity of fracking. Though Haigh makes it clear from the start that energy exploration inevitably carries environmental costs, she fills her novel with characters who…
Jeff Daniel Marion, a native of Rogersville, taught English and creative writing at Carson-Newman University for over thirty-five years. There he was poet-in-residence, director of the Appalachian Center, and editor…
…morning a cardinal plays the scales of our picket fence, hopping from one paling to the next, and I am taken back to 1944, darkened theater where I sit between…
