Published in August of this year, “English Lit” is Bernard Clay’s autobiographical poetry debut – one that took decades to complete. “A lot of the poems I started writing when I first started writing poetry back in high school,” Clay said. “So a lot of these poems are like time […]
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In the forward for Familiar Paths, Vol. 1, photographer and documentary filmmaker Jared Hamilton says, “This series is meant to feel like mamaw’s warm blanket on a rainy day.” And it does. The zine is filled with black and white images and contains almost no text, with the exception of […]
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In his new book “A Union for Appalachian Healthcare Workers: The Radical Roots and Hard Fights of Local 1199,” John Hennen tells the story of a union founded in New York City that worked its way into Appalachian communities. Hennen, a Morehead State University emeritus professor of history, says he […]
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Ashley M. Jones is attempting to change the way the Alabama literary scene is perceived from the inside and out. Jones was recently named Alabama’s Poet Laureate and is the first person of color and the youngest person to hold the position since it was created 91 years ago. “I’m […]
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Fifty years ago, Anne Lawrence found herself travelling from her college classrooms on the campus of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania south to the coalfields of Central Appalachia. Then a junior studying history and sociology, the Massachusetts native was hired by Miners for Democracy to collect the oral histories of Appalachian […]
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I live in Birmingham, Alabama, in the shadow of Red Mountain. As far as mountains go, it’s a bump on the landscape. From my front door, it would take maybe an hour and a half to walk up and over it completely. And yet, that mountain represents the lifeblood of […]
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