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INDEX OF TITLES AND AUTHORS
About the Pelvis
Adams, Sheila Kay
Addie
Ahlawe Usv’ Tsigesvgi
Allison, Dorothy
All On A Summer's Afternoon
All Those Nights
Alther, Lisa
Anderson, Maggie
And This Is The Way To Be Poor
Anorexia Bulimia Speaks from the Grave
Appalachia
Appalachia, Where are your Hills?
Appalachian Winter
Armstrong, Anne W.
Arnow, Harriette Simpson
Arrow Grasses by Greenbrier River
Ascension
Aubade to Fear (Heavy with Child)
Autobiography of Mother Jones, The, A Strike in Virginia
Auxier, Sylvia Trent
Awiakta, Marilou
Backwoods Haiku
Bad News
Bastard Out of Carolina, Chapter 1
Bates, Artie Ann
Baylor, Frances Courtenay
Bean Trees, The, The One to Get Away
Behind the Blue Ridge, from Chapter 1
Belinda, Our Tremendous Gift
Big Stone Gap, Chapter One
Bittersweet
Boy, The
Breadstuff
Bridgers, Sue Ellen
Briers
Broadside
Bush, Florence Cope
Byer, Kathryn Stripling
Cabin Homes, from The Spirit of the Mountains
Cabins in the Laurel, from Chapter II
Call Home the Heart, from Chapter 3
Calling, The
Carawan, Candie
Carrie Bishop, from Storming Heaven
Carson, Jo
Caudill, Rebecca
Chaffin, Lillie D.
Christy, Chapter Thirty-eight
Cicada's Song
Circuit Rider's Wife, A, from Chapter 5
Clarissa and the Second Coming
Clouse, Loletta
Cobb, Ann
Coffman, Lisa
Composition
Coon Creek Girl, Chapter II
Cortner, Amy Tipton
Country
Crabtree, Lou V.P.
Cycles, from Transparencies
Dargan, Olive Tilford
Davenport, Doris
Davis, Rebecca Harding
Daytrips
Deagon, Ann
DeBord, Angelyn
Deep Mining
Dillard, Annie
Discipline
Discovered
Dorie: Woman of the Mountains
Downer, Hilda
Dressler, Muriel Miller
Dromgoole, Will Allen
Dry Spring, A
Durket Sperret, The, Chapter II
Dykeman, Wilma
Easter
Easter Frock, The
Echocardiogram
Economy
Edge of the Woods, The, from Chapter 1
Elegy For Jody
Elliott, Sarah Barnwell
Every open space fills with sky
Extended Learning
Familiar Level, The
Farr, Sidney Saylor
Fat Sestina
Fiddling His Way to Fame
Finney, Nikky
First Plowing in the Hills
First Ride, The
Five Minutes in Heaven, Chapter 7
Force
for Dr. Josefina Garcia & the “Tissue Committee”
For My Grandmother Who Knows How
French Broad, The
Furman, Lucy
Giardina, Denise
Gifts of the Spirit, The
Giles, Janice Holt
Giovanni, Nikki
Giving the Sun
Glad Gardener, The
Godwin, Gail
Good Luck Charm
Grandmothers and Sons, from The Spirit of the Mountains
Granny Brock
Green, Connie Jordan
Griots, from Racism 101
Growing Light
Hamilton, Virginia
Hannah Fowler, from Chapter 3
Hansel, Pauletta
Harris, Corra
Haun, Mildred
Hawk's Done Gone, The
High, Ellesa Clay
Hillbilly Vampire, The
Hill Daughter
Hodges, Mary Bozeman
Hole, The
Hollow, The
Homecoming
Homer-Snake
Hooked Album Quilt, 1870
Hospitality
House At Night, The, from Machine Dreams
Houston, Gloria
Howard, Lee
How Do You Remember Him?
Hunter's Horn, Chapter 21
Ice Breaks, 1930s, The, from The Unquiet Earth
In a Time of Drought
In Envy of Migration
In the Kitchen We String Beans
In the Tennessee Mountains
Irons at Her feet
I Used To Be A Teacup
Johnston, Mary
Jones, Mary Harris “Mother”
Joyce, Jane Wilson
July 18, 1966
June 14, 1979, from Past Titan Rock
Justus, May
Kathy
Kelley, Edith Summers
Kendrick, Leatha
Kenhawa County, from Sketches of History, Life, and Manners, in the United States
Killing Ground, The, Before the Revolution—1960
Kingsolver, Barbara
Kivers
Knoxville, Tennessee
Koger, Lisa
Landis, Catherine
Language of Poetry, The
Lanterns and Lamps
Last of the ‘Waltz Across Texas’ and Other Stories, The, Maybe
Last Unmined Vein, The
Ledford, Lily May
Legacy For Rachel
Life and Art in East Tennessee
Life in the Iron Mills
Lineage
Liza's Monday
Long Roll, The, from Chapter VI
Long Story
Lumpkin, Grace
Lyon, George Ella
Machine Dreams, The House At Night
Many Waters
Maps
Marion, Linda Parsons
Marshall, Catherine
Mason, Beli
nda Ann
May, Kathy L.
Maybe, from The Last of the ‘Waltz Across Texas’ and Other Stories
McCoys, The, Roseanna McCoy
McCoy, Truda Williams
McCrumb, Sharyn
McDonald, Jeanne
McElmurray, Karen Salyer
M. C. Higgins the Great, Chapter 4
McKernan, Llewellyn
McKinney, Irene
McNeill, Louise
Memories of Home
Merchant, Jane
Miles, Emma Bell
Miller, Heather Ross
Missing May, Chapter One
Momma's Letter
Moore, Janice Townley
Moore, MariJo
More than Moonshine
Morning Cool, The, from Part One
Morning of the Red-Tailed Hawk, The
Mornings, Sheba Combs Her Hair
Motherkind, from Chapter 2
Mother Milking
Mother of the Disappeared: An Appalachian Birth Mother's Journey
Mountain Time
Mountains Fill Up the Night
Ms. Ida Mae
Mulberries
Murfree, Mary Noailles
Music
My Appalachia
My Boy Elroy
My Father. His Rabbits.
My Great-Aunt Arizona
Nativity
Neighbors
New Poor
No Minority
No Place Like Home
One to Get Away, The, from The Bean Trees
Only Portrait of Emily Dickinson, The
On My Way to the Rest of My Life, from Some Days There's Pie
Ontological
Other Woman, The
Our Bodies Remember
Our Mountain, Going to the River
Our Mountain, The Trouble with Town
Our Mountain, What is a Mountain
Out of Ashes Peace Will Rise
Palencia, Elaine Fowler
Past Titan Rock, June 14, 1979
Patch of Earth, A, from The Milkweed Ladies
Phillips, Jayne Anne
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Pink
Place with Promise, A
Poem Off Center, A
Poetics South
Powell, Lynn
Praise House
Predators, from Prodigal Summer
Presnell, Barbara
Prodigal Summer, from Chapter 1 [Predators]
Queen Ida's Hair-Doing House of Waves
Quillen, Rita Sims
Rain
Raising, The
Refusing a Spinal
Return the Innocent Earth, from Chapter 1
Revolutionary Dreams
Rings
Ritchie, Jean
Roberts, Elizabeth Madox
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