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About the Pelvis

Adams, Sheila Kay

Addie

Ahlawe Usv' Tsigesvgi

Allison, Dorothy

All On A Summer's Afternoon

All Those Nights

Alther, Lisa

Anderson, Maggie

And This Is The Way To Be Poor

Anorexia Bulimia Speaks from the Grave

Appalachia

Appalachia, Where are your Hills?

Appalachian Winter

Armstrong, Anne W.

Arnow, Harriette Simpson

Arrow Grasses by Greenbrier River

Ascension

Aubade to Fear (Heavy with Child)

Autobiography of Mother Jones, The
, A Strike in Virginia

Auxier, Sylvia Trent

Awiakta, Marilou

Backwoods Haiku

Bad News

Bastard Out of Carolina
, Chapter 1

Bates, Artie Ann

Baylor, Frances Courtenay

Bean Trees, The
, The One to Get Away

Behind the Blue Ridge
, from Chapter 1

Belinda, Our Tremendous Gift

Big Stone Gap
, Chapter One

Bittersweet

Boy, The

Breadstuff

Bridgers, Sue Ellen

Briers

Broadside

Bush, Florence Cope

Byer, Kathryn Stripling

Cabin Homes, from
The Spirit of the Mountains

Cabins in the Laurel
, from Chapter II

Call Home the Heart
, from Chapter 3

Calling, The

Carawan, Candie

Carrie Bishop, from
Storming Heaven

Carson, Jo

Caudill, Rebecca

Chaffin, Lillie D.

Christy
, Chapter Thirty-eight

Cicada's Song

Circuit Rider's Wife, A
, from Chapter 5

Clarissa and the Second Coming

Clouse, Loletta

Cobb, Ann

Coffman, Lisa

Composition

Coon Creek Girl
, Chapter II

Cortner, Amy Tipton

Country

Crabtree, Lou V.P.

Cycles, from
Transparencies

Dargan, Olive Tilford

Davenport, Doris

Davis, Rebecca Harding

Daytrips

Deagon, Ann

DeBord, Angelyn

Deep Mining

Dillard, Annie

Discipline

Discovered

Dorie: Woman of the Mountains

Downer, Hilda

Dressler, Muriel Miller

Dromgoole, Will Allen

Dry Spring, A

Durket Sperret, The
, Chapter II

Dykeman, Wilma

Easter

Easter Frock, The

Echocardiogram

Economy

Edge of the Woods, The
, from Chapter 1

Elegy For Jody

Elliott, Sarah Barnwell

Every open space fills with sky

Extended Learning

Familiar Level, The

Farr, Sidney Saylor

Fat Sestina

Fiddling His Way to Fame

Finney, Nikky

First Plowing in the Hills

First Ride, The

Five Minutes in Heaven
, Chapter 7

Force

for Dr. Josefina Garcia & the “Tissue Committee”

For My Grandmother Who Knows How

French Broad, The

Furman, Lucy

Giardina, Denise

Gifts of the Spirit, The

Giles, Janice Holt

Giovanni, Nikki

Giving the Sun

Glad Gardener, The

Godwin, Gail

Good Luck Charm

Grandmothers and Sons, from
The Spirit of the Mountains

Granny Brock

Green, Connie Jordan

Griots, from
Racism 101

Growing Light

Hamilton, Virginia

Hannah Fowler
, from Chapter 3

Hansel, Pauletta

Harris, Corra

Haun, Mildred

Hawk's Done Gone, The

High, Ellesa Clay

Hillbilly Vampire, The

Hill Daughter

Hodges, Mary Bozeman

Hole, The

Hollow, The

Homecoming

Homer-Snake

Hooked Album Quilt, 1870

Hospitality

House At Night, The, from
Machine Dreams

Houston, Gloria

Howard, Lee

How Do You Remember Him?

Hunter's Horn
, Chapter 21

Ice Breaks, 1930s, The, from
The Unquiet Earth

In a Time of Drought

In Envy of Migration

In the Kitchen We String Beans

In the Tennessee Mountains

Irons at Her feet

I Used To Be A Teacup

Johnston, Mary

Jones, Mary Harris “Mother”

Joyce, Jane Wilson

July 18, 1966

June 14, 1979, from
Past Titan Rock

Justus, May

Kathy

Kelley, Edith Summers

Kendrick, Leatha

Kenhawa County, from
Sketches of History, Life, and Manners, in the United States

Killing Ground, The
, Before the Revolution—1960

Kingsolver, Barbara

Kivers

Knoxville, Tennessee

Koger, Lisa

Landis, Catherine

Language of Poetry, The

Lanterns and Lamps

Last of the ‘Waltz Across Texas' and Other Stories, The
, Maybe

Last Unmined Vein, The

Ledford, Lily May

Legacy For Rachel

Life and Art in East Tennessee

Life in the Iron Mills

Lineage

Liza's Monday

Long Roll, The
, from Chapter VI

Long Story

Lumpkin, Grace

Lyon, George Ella

Machine Dreams
, The House At Night

Many Waters

Maps

Marion, Linda Parsons

Marshall, Catherine

Mason, Belinda Ann

May, Kathy L.

Maybe, from
The Last of the ‘Waltz Across Texas' and Other Stories

McCoys, The
, Roseanna McCoy

McCoy, Truda Williams

McCrumb, Sharyn

McDonald, Jeanne

McElmurray, Karen Salyer

M. C. Higgins the Great
, Chapter 4

McKernan, Llewellyn

McKinney, Irene

McNeill, Louise

Memories of Home

Merchant, Jane

Miles, Emma Bell

Miller, Heather Ross

Missing May
, Chapter One

Momma's Letter

Moore, Janice Townley

Moore, MariJo

More than Moonshine

Morning Cool, The
, from Part One

Morning of the Red-Tailed Hawk, The

Mornings, Sheba Combs Her Hair

Motherkind
, from Chapter 2

Mother Milking

Mother of the Disappeared: An Appalachian Birth Mother's Journey

Mountain Time

Mountains Fill Up the Night

Ms. Ida Mae

Mulberries

Murfree, Mary Noailles

Music

My Appalachia

My Boy Elroy

My Father. His Rabbits.

My Great-Aunt Arizona

Nativity

Neighbors

New Poor

No Minority

No Place Like Home

One to Get Away, The, from
The Bean Trees

Only Portrait of Emily Dickinson, The

On My Way to the Rest of My Life, from
Some Days There's Pie

Ontological

Other Woman, The

Our Bodies Remember

Our Mountain
, Going to the River

Our Mountain
, The Trouble with Town

Our Mountain
, What is a Mountain

Out of Ashes Peace Will Rise

Palencia, Elaine Fowler

Past Titan Rock
, June 14, 1979

Patch of Earth, A, from
The Milkweed Ladies

Phillips, Jayne Anne

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Pink

Place with Promise, A

Poem Off Center, A

Poetics South

Powell, Lynn

Praise House

Predators, from
Prodigal Summer

Presnell, Barbara

Prodigal Summer
, from Chapter 1 [Predators]

Queen Ida's Hair-Doing House of Waves

Quillen, Rita Sims

Rain

Raising, The

Refusing a Spinal

Return the Innocent Earth
, from Chapter 1

Revolutionary Dreams

Rings

Ritchie, Jean

Roberts, Elizabeth Madox

Roots

Roseanna McCoy, from
The McCoys

Royall, Anne Newport

Rumors

Rylant, Cynthia

Salvation

Sara Will
, from Chapter 11

Saved

Saving Grace
, Chapter 1

Second Christmas

Seedtime on the Cumberland

Sellers, Bettie

Settle, Mary Lee

Seventh Grades

Shadow of the Mountain
, from Part III

She

Shelby, Anne

Sheppard, Muriel Earley

Sholl, Betsy

Showell, Ellen Harvey

Sight to the Blind

Sinclair, Bennie Lee

Sing for Freedom

Singing Family of the Cumberlands
, Chapter One

Sister

Sketches of History, Life, and Manners, in the United States
, Kenhawa County

Slone, Verna Mae

Smith, Barbara

Smith, Effie Waller

Smith, Lee

Snake Dreams

Solidarity in the Night

Someday in a Wood

Some Days There's Pie
, On My Way to the Rest of My Life

Songcatcher, The
, from Chapter 5

Sonnet for Her Labor

Southern Family, A

Spellcheck

Spending the Night

Spirit of the Mountains, The
, Cabin Homes

Spirit of the Mountains, The
, Grandmothers and Sons

Sports Widow

Stair, The

Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet
,

Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet
,

Storming Heaven
, Carrie Bishop

Story is a Woman

Strike in Virginia, A, from
The Autobiography of Mother Jones

Stuart, Jane

Sunday Morning, 1950

This Day and Time
, Chapter Three

This is what history is

Tick

Time of Man, The
, from Chapter III

Time to Reweave, A

Time to Study Law, A

To her mother, lying in state

To Make My Bread
, from Chapter 1

To My Daughter Going Off to College

Transparencies
, Cycles

Trigiani, Adriana

Twilight in West Virginia: Six O'Clock Mine Report

Twins

Under the Earth

Unquiet Earth, The
, The Ice Breaks, 1930s

Up the Hill toward Home

Vampire Ethnographer, The

Visiting My Gravesite: Talbott Churchyard, West Virginia

War at Home, The
, from Chapter 1

Way Back, The

Weather Rhymes

Weeds
, Chapter III

Welcome to the Other Side

What My Heart Wants to Tell
, Chapter Twenty

When Earth Becomes an “It”

When Grandmother Wept

When You Lose a Child

Where I'm From

Where Stuarts Lie

Why I Write

Widow Man, The

Wilder
, Chapter 6

Wildsmith, Dana

Wildwood Flower

Wilkinson, Sylvia

Willis, Meredith Sue

Wilson, Leigh Allison

With A Hammer for My Heart
, from Part One

Witherspoon, Mary Elizabeth

woman is segmented as an ant, A

Woman Writer

Women Die Like Trees

Writing Lessons (I.)

Writing Lessons (II.)

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S
HEILA
K
AY
A
DAMS

“The Easter Frock” from
Come Go Home With Me: Stories By Sheila Kay Adams
© 1995 by the University of North Carolina Press, used by permission of the publisher and the author.

D
OROTHY
A
LLISON

Excerpt from
Bastard Out of Carolina
reprinted with permission from Frances Goldin Literary Agency, Inc.

L
ISA
A
LTHER

Excerpt from
Five Minutes in Heaven
, Dutton, Penguin Books, 1995, reprinted with permission from the author.

M
AGGIE
A
NDERSON

“Ontological,” “Long Story,” and “Sonnet for Her Labor” from
Windfall ©
2000, reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press. “A Place With Promise” from
A Space Filled with Moving ©
1992, reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.

H
ARRIETTE
S
IMPSON
A
RNOW

Excerpt from
Hunter's Horn
, Michigan State University Press, 1997, reprinted with permission from Michigan State University Press, Thomas Arnow, and Marcella Arnow. “The Old Boot” from
Seedtime on the Cumberland
, University of Nebraska Press, 1995, reprinted with permission from Thomas Arnow and Marcella Arnow. “The First Ride,”
Appalachian Heritage
, (fall 1989), reprinted with permission from
Appalachian Heritage
, Thomas Arnow, and Marcella Arnow.

S
YLVIA
T
RENT
A
UXIER

“Neighbors,” “When Grandmother Wept,” “Cicada's Song,” and “Someday in a Wood” from
With Thorn and Stone
, Hilltop Editions, Pikeville College Press, 1968, and “The Stair” from
Love-Vine
, The Story Book Press, 1953, used with permission from Michael T. Auxier.

M
ARILOU
A
WIAKTA

Excerpts from
Selu: Seeking the Corn Mother's Wisdom
, Fulcrum Publishing, 1993, reprinted with permission from Fulcrum Publishing, Inc. Excerpts from
Abiding Appalachia: Where Mountain and Atom Meet
, St. Luke's Press, 1978, reprinted with permission from the author, originally published by St. Luke's Press, 1978. Quoted from eighth edition, Iris Press, 1995.

A
RTIE
A
NN
B
ATES

“Belinda, Our Tremendous Gift” from
Appalachian Heritage
, vol. 19, no. 2, reprinted with permission from the author and
Appalachian Heritage.

S
UE
E
LLEN
B
RIDGERS

Excerpt from
Sara Will
, Harper & Row, 1985, reprinted with permission from the author.

F
LORENCE
C
OPE
B
USH

Excerpt from
Dorie, Woman of the Mountains
, the University of Tennessee Press, 1992, reprinted with permission from the University of Tennessee Press.

K
ATHRYN
S
TRIPLING
B
YER

“Wildwood Flower,” “Bittersweet,” “Lineage,” and “Easter” from
Wildwood Flower
, Louisiana State University Press, 1992; and “Mountain Time” from
Black Shawl
, Louisiana State University Press, 1998, reprinted with permission from Louisiana State University Press and with permission of the author.

C
ANDIE
C
ARAWAN

Excerpts from
Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs
, Sing Out Corp., 1990, reprinted with permission from Guy and Candie Carawan.

J
O
C
ARSON

Excerpts from
Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet: Selections from the People Pieces
, Orchard Books, 1989, reprinted with permission from the author. “Maybe” from
The Last of the “Waltz Across Texas” and Other Stories
, Gnomon Press, 1993, reprinted with permission from Gnomon Press and the author. Excerpt from
Daytrips
, Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 1991, reprinted with permission from the author.

R
EBECCA
C
AUDILL

Excerpt from
My Appalachia
, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1966, reprinted with permission from Rebecca Jean Baker.

L
ILLIE
D. C
HAFFIN

“The Glad Gardener” from
Appalachian Heritage
, vol. 15, no. 3 (summer 1987) reprinted with permission of
Appalachian Heritage
and Thomas R. Chaffin; and “Second Christmas,” “Spending the Night,” and “Discipline” from
8th Day, 13th Moon
, Hilltop Editions, Pikeville College Press, 1974, reprinted with permission from Thomas R. Chaffin.

L
OLETTA
C
LOUSE

Excerpt from
Wilder
, Rutledge Hill Press, 1990, reprinted with permission from the author.

L
ISA
C
OFFMAN

“Maps,” “In Envy of Migration,” and “About the Pelvis” from
Likely
, Kent State University Press, 1996; and “Tick” from
Meridian
(fall 2000), reprinted with permission from
Meridian
and the author.

A
MY
T
IPTON
C
ORTNER

“The Hillbilly Vampire,” “The Vampire Ethnographer,” and “No Minority” from
The Hillbilly Vampire
, Rowan Mountain Press, 1990, reprinted with permission from the author.

L
OU
V.P. C
RABTREE

“Homer-Snake” from
Sweet Hollow
, Louisiana State University Press, 1984; and “Sports Widow” and “Sister” from
The River Hills & Beyond
, Sow's Ear Press, 1998, reprinted with permission of the author.

D
ORIS
D
IOSA
D
AVENPORT

“Country” from
Soque Street Poems
, Sautee-Nacoochee Community Association, 1995; “for Dr. Josefina Garcia & the ‘Tissue Committee'” from
voodoo chile: slight return
, Soque Street Press, 1991; and “zora neale” from
eat thunder & drink rain
, Soque Street Press, 1982, reprinted with permission from the author.

A
NN
D
EAGON

“Giving the Sun,” “The Hole,” and “Twins” from
Women and Children First
, Iron Mountain Press, 1976; “Poetics South” and “In a Time of Drought” from
Poetics South
, John F. Blair, 1974; and
Broadside
reprinted with permission from the author.

A
NGELYN
D
E
B
ORD

Excerpt from
Praise House
, Urban Bush Women, 1991, reprinted with permission from the author.

A
NNIE
D
ILLARD

Excerpt from
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
, Harper & Row, 1974, reprinted with permission from the author.

H
ILDA
J. D
OWNER

“This is what history is” and “A woman is segmented as an ant” from
Bandana Creek
, Red Clay Books, 1979; and “Every open space fills with sky” from
Appalachian Journal
, vol. 20, no. 2 (winter 1993), reprinted with permission from the author.

M
URIEL
M
ILLER
D
RESSLER

“Appalachia” and “Elegy for Jody” reprinted by permission of William (Billy) C. Plumley, holder of the copyright of poetry by Muriel Miller Dressier.

W
ILMA
D
YKEMAN

Excerpt from
The French Broad
, Rinehart, 1955; and excerpt from
Return the Innocent Earth
, Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1973, reprinted with permission from the author.

S
IDNEY
S
AYLOR
F
ARR

“Appalachia, Where are your Hills?” “Granny Brock,” and “Mountains Fill Up the Night” from
Headwaters
, Pocahontas Press, 1995, reprinted with permission from Pocahontas Press and the author. Excerpt from
More than Moonshine: Appalachian Recipes and Recollections
© 1983, reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press and the author.

N
IKKY
F
INNEY

“Irons At Her Feet” from
Rice
, Sister Vision: Black Women and Women of Colour Press, 1995; and “Queen Ida's Hair-Doing House of Waves” from
Heartwood
, University Press of Kentucky, 1997, reprinted with permission from the author.

D
ENISE
G
IARDINA

Chapter 3 from
Storming Heaven
© 1987 and “The Ice Breaks, 1930s” from
The Unquiet Earth
© 1992, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., used by permission of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

J
ANICE
H
OLT
G
ILES

Excerpt from
Hannah Fowler
, Houghton Mifflin, 1956, reprinted with permission from John W. Waggoner.

N
IKKI
G
IOVANNI

“Griots” from
Racism 101
© 1994, “Knoxville, Tennessee,” “Revolutionary Dreams,” and “A Poem Off Center” from
The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni ©
1996, reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., and the author.

G
AIL
G
ODWIN

Excerpt from
A Southern Family
, Morrow, 1987, reprinted with permission of the author.

C
ONNIE
J
ORDAN
G
REEN

Excerpt from
The War at Home
, Macmillan, Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1989, reprinted with permission from the author.

V
IRGINIA
H
AMILTON

Excerpt from
M.C. Higgins, the Great
, Macmillan, 1974, reprinted by permission from Arnold Adoff.

P
AULETTA
H
ANSEL

“To her mother, lying in state,” from
Appalachian Journal
(autumn 1982); and “Writing Lessons (I.),” “She,” and “Writing Lessons (II.)” from
Divining
, WovenWord Press, 2001, reprinted with permission from the author.

M
ILDRED
H
AUN

“The Hawk's Done Gone” from
The Hawk's Done Gone and Other Stories
, Vanderbilt University Press, 1985, reprinted with permission from Vanderbilt University Press.

E
LLESA
C
LAY
H
IGH

Excerpt from
Past Titan Rock
, University Press of Kentucky, 1984, reprinted with permission from the author.

M
ARY
B
OZEMAN
H
ODGES

“Ms. Ida Mae” from
Tough Customers and Other Stories
, Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1999, reprinted with permission from the Jesse Stuart Foundation and the author.

G
LORIA
H
OUSTON

Excerpt from
My Great-Aunt Arizona
, HarperCollins Publishers, 1992, reprinted with permission from HarperCollins Publishers and the author.

L
EE
H
OWARD

“Momma's Letter” and “The Last Unmined Vein” from
The Last Unmined Vein
, Anemone Press, 1980, reprinted with permission from the author.

J
ANE
W
ILSON
J
OYCE

“Life and Art in East Tennessee” from
Old Wounds, New Words: Poems from the Appalachian Poetry Project
, Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1994; and “Hooked Album Quilt, 1870” from
The Quilt Poems
, Gnomon Press, 1992, reprinted with permission from the publishers and the author.

M
AY
J
USTUS

“Weather Rhymes” from
The Complete Peddler's Pack
, the University of Tennessee Press, 1967, reprinted with permission from the University of Tennessee Press.

L
EATHA
K
ENDRICK

“The Familiar Level” and “Refusing a Spinal” from
Heartcake: Poems
, Sow's Ear Press, 2000, reprinted with permission from Sow's Ear Press and the author.

B
ARBARA
K
INGSOLVER

Excerpt from
The Bean Trees
© 1988, reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. and the author. Excerpt from
Prodigal Summer
© 2000, reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., and the author.