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JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS
Excerpt from Motherkind, Alfred A. Knopf, 2000; and “The House At Night” from Machine Dreams, Washington Square Press, 1984, reprinted with permission from the author.
LYNN POWELL
“Nativity,” “Echocardiogram,” and “The Calling” from Old and New Testaments © 1995, reprinted by permission of the University of Wisconsin Press and the author.
BARBARA PRESNELL
“In the Kitchen We String Beans,” “Clarissa and the Second Coming,” “When You Lose a Child,” and “Snake Dreams” from Snake Dreams, Nightshade Press, 1994, reprinted with permission from the author.
RITA SIMS QUILLEN
“July 18, 1966,” “Woman Writer,” and “I Used To Be a Teacup” from Counting the Sums, Sow's Ear Press, 1995; “Discovered” from October Dusk, Seven Buffaloes Press, 1987; and “How Do You Remember Him?” from Appalachian Journal (summer 1997), reprinted with permission from Sow's Ear Press, Seven Buffaloes Press and the author.
JEAN RITCHIE
Excerpt from Singing Family of the Cumberlands, University Press of Kentucky, 1955, reprinted with permission from the author.
CYNTHIA RYLANT
Excerpt from Missing May, published by Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc., copyright © 1992 by Cynthia Rylant. Reprinted with permission.
BETTIE SELLERS
“Liza's Monday,” “Pink,” and “Mornings, Sheba Combs Her Hair,” from Liza's Monday and Other Poems, Appalachian Consortium Press, 1986; and “Morning of the Red-Tailed Hawk,” “All On A Summer's Afternoon,” and “Legacy For Rachel” from Morning of the Red-Tailed Hawk, Green River Press, 1981, reprinted with permission from the author.
MARY LEE SETTLE
Excerpt from Addie, University of South Carolina Press, 1998, reprinted with permission from the University of South Carolina Press. Excerpt from The Killing Ground, reprinted by permission of Carlisle & Company, LLC on behalf of the author.
ANNE SHELBY
“Why I Write” (fall 1997), “Fat Sestina,” and “Spellcheck” (fall 1998) from Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, reprinted with permission from the author.
MURIEL EARLEY SHEPPARD
Excerpt from Cabins in the Laurel © 1935 and 1991 by the University of North Carolina Press, used by permission of the publisher.
BETSY SHOLL
“Appalachian Winter” from Appalachian Winter, reprinted with permission from the author.
ELLEN HARVEY SHOWELL
“What is a Mountain?” “The Trouble with Town,” and “Going to the River” from Our Mountain, Bradbury Press, 1991, reprinted with permission from the author.
BENNIE LEE SINCLAIR
“Homecoming” from The Arrowhead Scholar, Wildernesse Books, 1978; “Kathy” from Little Chicago Suite, Wildernesse Books, 1978; and “My Father. His Rabbits” and “Backwoods Haiku” from Lord of Springs, Rowan Mountain Press, 1990, reprinted with permission from the Estate of the author.
VERNA MAE SLONE
Excerpt from What My Heart Wants to Tell, New Republic Books, 1979, reprinted with permission from the author.
BARBARA SMITH
“Bad News” from Weeping With Those Who Weep: Poems of Bereavement, “And This Is The Way To Be Poor” from Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel: Contemporary Appalachian Writing, and “The Language of Poetry” from New River Free Press, reprinted with permission from the author.
EFFIE WALLER SMITH
“Memories of Home” from The Collected Works of Effie Waller Smith, Oxford University Press, 1991.
LEE SMITH
Excerpt from Saving Grace © 1995 by Lee Smith, published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, a division of Penguin Putnam, Inc., used with permission of the author.
JANE STUART
“Cycles” from Transparencies: Remembrances of My Father, Jesse Stuart, Archer Editions Press, 1985; “Where Stuarts Lie” and “Roots” from Eyes of the Mole, Stanton & Lee, 1967; and “Composition” from White Barn, Whipoorwill Press, 1973, reprinted with permission from the author.
ADRIANA TRIGIANI
Excerpt from Big Stone Gap © 2000 by The Glory of Everything Company, used by permission of Random House, Inc., and the author.
DANA WILDSMITH
“Force,” from Alchemy: Poems, Sow's Ear Press, 1995; and “New Poor,” “Economy,” “Our Bodies Remember,” and “A Dry Spring” from Our Bodies Remember: Poems, Sow's Ear Press, 1999, reprinted with permission from Sow's Ear Press and the author.
SYLVIA WILKINSON
Excerpt from Shadow of the Mountain: A Novel, Houghton Mifflin, 1977, reprinted with permission from the author.
MEREDITH SUE WILLIS
“My Boy Elroy” from In the Mountains of America © 1994 by Meredith Sue Willis, published by Mercury House, San Francisco, CA, and reprinted with permission of the author.
LEIGH ALLISON WILSON
“The Raising” from From the Bottom Up, University of Georgia Press, 1983, reprinted with permission from the author.
MARY ELIZABETH WITHERSPOON
Excerpt from The Morning Cool, MacMillan, 1972, reprinted with permission from the author.