“Song of the Mountains” and “For Just a Handful of Coal” by John C. Mannone
2025-04-23
Strip mining decapitates the mountains
Their remains are dumped into rivers
Many tears have been shed by the sky . . . Continue Reading
A Leap of Faith by Danielle Lowe
2025-01-15
I gazed up at the old building
as it seemed to swallow me whole
Many walked through its halls
as expectations screamed its call
Years of deadlines and late nights
had lead me to . . . Continue Reading
Mother: Time by Claire Elise Baker
2024-11-06
Anymore, the bearded faces that smothered my cheeks with burns and kisses have been shaved. Some buried. The dresses now are too small, the laced edges ripped . . . Continue Reading
The Indignity of Knowing by Amber Albritton Debut Collection Review
2024-10-02
Albritton’s poems take no prisoners. They’re raw, sensate, fierce—unapologetically so. She ferrets out the shadowy interstices lurking in . . . Continue Reading
“A Day in the Garden” by Kaitlyn Brown
2024-09-18
Most of all, I watch her
Wander about her garden,
Near-waltzing through rows of
Tomatoes and lilies,
Through okra, peppers, and fig trees,
And I see . . . Continue Reading
“Mountain Edging” by Megan Krupa
2024-08-28
When you’re on the edge,
you’d expect a century to look
a little less like itself.
Full of newness and breath,
but maybe it’s . . . Continue Reading
“First Generation” by Leigh Ann Roman
2024-08-14
Love that churned butter
stirred soup beans,
fried fruit pies,
Love that could read your fortune
in . . . Continue Reading
“Pinky Swear” by William R. Stoddart
2024-07-24
Make me the promise
that you’ll never leave
this coal slurry town.
Sing . . . Continue Reading
“Two Walking Sticks” by Lee Blevins
2024-07-10
I think it is a snake, see how it bends.
Kate says it is a hound, sleek for the chase,
but whether hound or snake, swift it was not,
for old men who use canes . . . Continue Reading
Present and Connected – Danita Dodson An Interview with the Poet
2024-06-26
Her deep connection with these Appalachian Mountains is evident in her poetry. Her words encapsulate the very essence of this region – from ancestors to the natural world and in between. Her own mountain spirit and philosophy of interconnectedness flow through her poetry . . .Continue Reading