By Ron Roach | Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and Magura in the Piatra Craiului Mountains of Romania may seem worlds apart. Yet, these two mountain communities share similar landscapes, histories, stories of preservation and ...

By Lacy Snapp | Nickole Brown is a poet whose voice is a contemporary, vital presence in our Appalachian writing community as her poems often include a speaker who holds up a curious and reverent magnifying glass to the more-than-human world. Brown is the executive director of the Hellbender Gathering of Poets, a new ecological writing festival ...

By Thomas E. Wagner and Phillip J. Obermiller | When we think of Appalachian places we normally look to the highlands of West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and other Southern mountain states. Often overlooked are the communities of Appalachians in Midwestern cities ...

By Ophelia Thornton | For most U.S. towns and cities established during the 1800s, railroads served as critical arteries for creating, growing and sustaining community life. Although establishing ...

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