Flowering ivy / Shelia Kay Adams Border states / Lisa Alther The mountains dark and close around me / Maggie Anderson Sound / Marilou Awiakta Root hog, or die / Artie Ann Bates Deep water / Kathryn Stripling Byer Good questions / Jo Carson Paradise in Price Hollow / Lou V.P. Crabtree All this, and honeysuckles too / Doris Diosa Davenport Mutant in bandana / Hilda Downer "The past is never dead. It's not even past" / Wilma Dykeman Women born to be strong / Sidney Saylor Farr Salt-water geechee mounds / Nikky Finney No scapin the booger man / Denise Giardina 400 Mulvaney Street / Nikki Giovanni Uncle Orphy / Gail Godwin The standing people / Ellesa Clay High Writing in the smokehouse / Lisa Koger
Voiceplace / George Ella Lyon
Keepers of the legends / Sharyn McCrumb
Letter from a poet in West Virginia / Llewellyn McKernan
A natural history / Heather Ross Miller
Leaving Pre-Appalachia / Elaine Fowler Palencia
Premature burial / Jayne Anne Phillips
Counting the sums / Rita Sims Quillen
The song about the story, the story behind the song / Jean Ritchie
Westward from Bald Mountain / Bettie Sellers
The search for the Beulah Quintet / Mary Lee Settle
Big Stone Gap / Betsy Sholl
Appalachian loaves and fishes / Bennie Lee Sinclair
Inside discoveries / Barbara Smith
Terrain of the heart / Lee Smith
This house and this world / Jane Stuart
An inquiry into who my grandmother really was / Meredith Sue Willis.
