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

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