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Special Section |
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The Winners of Now & Then’s 2002 Appalachian Poetry Competition |
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Felix culpa by A. Jane Hicks
First Prize Winner
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Goldenrod Seeds by Jeff Mann
The University of Virginia's College at Wise Second Prize Winner
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Family Reunion by Judy Loest
The East Tennessee State University Department of English Third Prize Winner |
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Essays |
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5 Doors, 3 Windows: Writing Against the Odds
by Cathy Lentes
The winner of Now & Then's Year 2000 Appalachian Poetry Competition describes how she answers her calling in the sitting room of an old Appalachian Ohio farmhouse, a room with doors that don't quite hold the world at bay. |
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Lament
by Rita A. Mariotti
The eyes of an Eastern Kentucky miner still haunt a retired family physicians more than 40 years after their meetings. |
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Ray Hicks and the Doctors
by Joseph Sobol
A famed traditional Appalachian storyteller from North Carolina uses his stock of stories to show health care providers and patients alike how to face change with grace.
Read an excerpt. |
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Flash Burn
by Jim Minick
A young Pennsylvania college student undergoes an all-too-literal baptism by fire. |
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Funny, There Should Be That Quality, Sometimes…
by Barclay Franklin
From time to time, an Appalachian exiled in Arizona feels a mystical connection with her childhood home.
Read an excerpt. |
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Cicada
by Barbara Weddle
The distinctive sound of an insect triggers memories of hot, muggy Kentucky nights. |
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Walking to School
by Martha Wolfe
A young West Virginia girl receives an education about life's dangers while walking to and from school. |
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The Cage
by Les Brown
Boy and chimp square off in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. |
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My Buddy Nub
by Deana Steiner Smith
A photoessay details how good company and sweet berries are the earmarks of a friendship in the West Virginia mountains. |
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Notes from the Pugh Family Reunion
by John O'Brien
Family and food are the essential ingredients of a 50-year-old Pocahontas County, W.Va., ritual.
Read an excerpt. |
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What I Don't Know—and Do
by Silas House
A Kentucky novelist describes how he uses fiction to try to recreate his family's past. |
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Fiction |
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An Excerpt from A Parchment of Leaves
by Silas House
“‘When your great-grandmother died, her man made them cut off a foot of her hair and wrap it up in the funeral net for him,’ she said. I sat up a little more straight, alert at hearing this story once again. It was never old to me; it was like a song you never tire of hearing. …”
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Poetry |
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Love for Clouds by Coleman Barks
Job Market Report and Mass Media Non-existence by Jonathan Greene
Driving Force by Charlie Hughes
Zenith July by Lou Green
Birthday by Leatha Kendrick
Indoor Plumbing by Dawn Coppock
Sheets (at a Roadside Diner) by Terry L. Kenned
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Reviews |
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Home and Beyond: An Anthology of Kentucky Short Stories edited by Morris Allen Grubbs, reviewed by Stephen M. Holt
Letters Home by Jeff Daniel Marion, reviewed by Leatha Kendrick
Understanding Fred Chappell by John Lang, reviewed by Gina Herring
Big Cherry Holler by Adriana Trigiani, reviewed by Christine Goldbeck
Archaeology of the Appalachian Highlands edited by Lynne P. Sullivan and Susan C. Prezzano, reviewed by Charles Mayer Dupier Jr.
In Brief by Marianne Worthington
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Photo and illustration credits (from the top): Ron Hicks, John Ross, Robert Loest, Cathy Lentes, courtesy of Rita Mariotti, Tom Raymond, Megan Lightell, Donald E. Hahn and Nancy Fischman, Nancy Fischman, Nancy Jane Earnest, Tony Vernola, Deana Steiner Smith, Nancy Fischman, Stewart Bowman ©The (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal, Nancy Fischman, Ted Cooley, and Christine P. Patterson and Sow’s Ear Press. Images may not be reproduced without permission.
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