Poetry by Lacy Snapp, Wayne Caldwell, Jerry Buchanan, David Winship, Jordan Hensley, Kevin Brown, & Sue Weaver Dunlap

When I wrote my first letter from the editor to you in January, I spoke of spring’s upcoming arrival, and the ever lengthening of light. It’s fitting that for this final installment for 2025, we’re falling instead into shortening days as our pocket of Appalachia becomes cloaked with the enchanting, fiery colors of fall, but the ever loss of sunshine and heat ...

Poetry by Doug Van Gundy, Amy Le Ann Richardson, Susanna Skelton, Evelyn Bales, and Matthew Gilbert

Poetry by Jake Lawson, Scott Honeycutt, Anna Laura Reeve, and Clayton Spencer

Poetry by Matt Wimberley, Melissa Helton, Mary Alice Dixon, Megan Krupa, and Lydia Gwyn

Photo by Serdjo13, Adobe Stock Welcome  friends and fellow travelers to a full serving at the Poets’ Table, Samhain Edition. Here in...

Hello, and welcome to the drive-through window of the Poets’ Table. May I take your order? I have imagined from the start that our poetry...

By Jesse Graves | Imagine for a moment, a boy and his father building an ornate wooden bridge over a backyard creek, conceived as a...

Poets love the later days of spring and the early days of summer. We love the wildflowers and the leaf-sprouts that shake us from our...

Welcome, dreamers. I have always imagined that the poetry experience of Appalachian Places happens around a table in the corner of some...

Poetry by Jim Minick, Darnell Arnoult, Bart Sides, Kevin LeMaster and Arthur Smith

A conversation with Jim Minick | I first heard the name Jim Minick from the advice of poet Linda Parsons at the 2023 TN Mountain Writers ...

High summer has arrived in the mountains and foothills of East Tennessee, and we embrace the heat, Dear Reader, with poems that refresh ...

By Lacy Snapp | I first met Kari Gunter-Seymour in 2020 the same way that you’d expect during that time: in little rectangular Zoom boxes...

Welcome back to the poetry corner of Appalachian Places, and if this your first time visiting us, please take a few moments to browse our...

By Seth Grindstaff | A number of years ago when I opened my new copy of Jeff Daniel Marion’s collection of poetry...

Poetry by G.C. Waldrep, Elaine Fowler Palencia, William Rieppe Moore, and Sam Campbell

Poetry by Don Johnson, Denton Loving, Thomas Alan Holmes and Sam Barbee

On July 29, 2021, Appalachia lost one of its most beloved and esteemed poets, East Tennessee’s own Jeff Daniel Marion. Read more ...

Poetry by Jonathan Johnson, Tony Reevy, Beth Copeland and Isabel Gómez Sobrino