Rick Van Noy is the author of four books, including Borne by the River: Canoeing the Delaware from Headwaters to Home (Cornell 2024) and Sudden Spring: Stories of Adaptation in a Climate-Changed South (Georgia 2019). He is a professor of English at Radford University.

By Tess Lloyd | When we buried Mamaw at the southwest corner of our new pre-fab log cabin, I worried about pushback. The ritual was Cousin McCaslin’s idea. His folklore professor at the state university.

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