Book Excerpt: New Red Words
Larry D. Thacker’s poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in Poetry South, Appalachian Journal, Still: The Journal, and Pikeville Review, among other publications. His 2021 story collection, Working It Off in Labor County, was published by West Virginia University Press. He lives in Johnson City, Tennessee.
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FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: Bill Brown, a native of Dyersburg, Tennessee, was the author of many poetry collections, including Late Winter, The News Inside, and The Cairns. Brown also spent much of his life nurturing the work of other writers, chiefly during his years as a teacher at Nashville’s Hume-Fogg High School. He died on December 17, 2023.
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Annette Sisson’s new poetry collection reminds us that we are living and dying at once
In her latest poetry collection Winter Sharp with Apples, Annette Sisson considers the ordinary but important moments that bind people together. Sisson will appear at The Nocturne Reading Series at Land of a Thousand Hills in Nashville on January 21.
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Book Excerpt: Florence
Bess Cooley is a winner of The Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, and her work has also appeared in Prairie Schooner, Western Humanities Review, and Verse Daily, among other publications. She is the co-founding editor of Peatsmoke Journal and teaches at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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Where’s the line between what deserves protection and what is deemed disposable?
Though our house had no special distinction, she had chosen our porch for the delivery, heaving across the dusty tiles, trusting us.
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Reflections on Berea College
In Lessons from the Foothills, Gretchen Dykstra digs into Berea College’s past and present, from its 19th-century founding by John G. Fee, a Kentucky-born preacher with a dream of an integrated school that served Appalachians, to the school’s myriad challenges today.
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