Poetry

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

May 2315 min read

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

Mar 1920 min read

Poetry by Pauletta Hansel, Sylvia Woods, Diana Day, Matt Prater, and James Long

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

Nov 26, 202412 min read

Poetry from Cathryn Hankla, James Owens, Linda Behrend, Lee Clark Zumpe, Hilda Downer, and Andrew Lee Butler

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...

Aug 12, 202415 min read

I Carry the Mountains with Me Wherever I Go: Remembering Fred Chappell

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

May 28, 20244 min read

Poetry by Ian Hall, Stacey Lounsberry, Mitzi Dorton, Frederick Wilbur, and Marc Harshman

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...

May 28, 202410 min read

Poetry by Connie Jordan Green, Danny P. Barbare, Morgan Boyer, Fred Waage, and Larry D. Thacker

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

Feb 17, 202410 min read

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

Nov 28, 20239 min read

A conversation with Jim Minick

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 ...

Nov 10, 20236 min read

Poetry by Maurice Manning, KB Ballentine, Alan May, Sharon Ackerman

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

Aug 7, 20239 min read

A conversation with Kari Gunter-Seymour

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...

May 16, 20239 min read

Poetry: Kari Gunter-Seymour, Catherine Hamrick, Jessica Cory, Reneé Critcher Lyons, John Thomas York

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...

May 16, 202313 min read

A friendship rooted in shared passions continues to bloom in Appalachia

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

Feb 28, 20235 min read

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

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

Feb 28, 202312 min read

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

Nov 21, 20227 min read

Remembering Jeff Daniel Marion: Poems and Remembrances for Appalachian Places

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

Oct 8, 202217 min read

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

Oct 8, 20229 min read

Poetry by Micah Daniel McCrotty, Linda Parsons, and Rita Sims Quillen

Poetry by Micah Daniel McCrotty, Linda Parsons, and Rita Quillen

Jul 29, 20228 min read

Poetry by Shuly Xóchitl Cawood, Susan O’Dell Underwood, and Marianne Worthington

Apr 5, 20228 min read

Fred Chappell

February 15, 2022: Fred Chappell set of 6 poems: La Vergogna; Adagio, Pizzicato; Diminuendo lento; "Give Us This Day"; Intervals; Imprimatur

Feb 15, 20223 min read