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

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 ...