In the latest installment of our minisode series, Poetry Corner, Kendra Winchester is joined by Amy M. Alvarez.

Books Mentioned

• Makeshift Altar by Amy M. Alvarez
• Blue on a Blue Palette by Lynne Thompson
• Becoming AppalAsian by Lisa Kwong
• Incendiary Art by Patricia Smith
• Mothman Apologia Volume 116 by Robert Wood Lynn

Guest Info

Amy M. Alvarez’s work has appeared in Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, swamp pink (Crazyhorse), and The Cincinnati Review, among others. She has been awarded fellowships from CantoMundo, VONA, Macondo, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Furious Flower Poetry Center. Alvarez is coeditor of Essential Voices: A COVID-19 Anthology and teaches writing and literature at West Virginia University. In 2022, she was inducted as an Affrilachian Poet. Learn more at amymalvarez.com.

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In today’s episode of the podcast, Kendra Winchester talks to authors Natalie Naudus and Jonathan Corcoran.

Books Mentioned

• Gay the Pray Away by Natalie Naudus
• No Son of Mine by Jonathan Corcoran
• The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels
• Another Appalachia by Neema Avashia
• Shae by Mesha Maren
• Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips
• Black Tickets by Jayne Anne Phillips
• Fierce Attachments: A Memoir by Vivian Gornick
• Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
• Scissors, Paper, Rock by Fenton Johnson

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In the latest installment of our minisode series, Poetry Corner, Kendra Winchester is joined by Dorian Hairston.

Books Mentioned

• Pretend the Ball Is Named Jim Crow: The Story of Josh Gibson by Dorian Hairston
• Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems & Artifacts by Nikki Finney
• Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts by Crystal Wilkinson
• The Big Smoke by Adrian Matejka
• Leadbelly by Tyehimba Jess
• Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride by Frank X Walker

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In today's episode of the podcast, Kendra Winchester talks to photographers Raymond Thompson Jr and Julie Rae Powers.

Books Mentioned

• Buy Deep Ruts
• Appalachian Ghost by Raymond Thompson Jr
• The Book of the Dead by Muriel Rukeyser
• The Hawk’s Nest Incident: America's Worst Industrial Disaster by Martin Cherniack
• The Hawk’s Nest Tunnel: An Unabridged History by Patricia Spangler
• Elegy by Dawoud Bey
• The Afronauts by Cristina De Middel
• Test of Faith: Signs, Serpents, Salvation by Lauren Pond

Guest Info
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Julie Rae Powers Website | Instagram
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In this special live recording of Read Appalachia, host Kendra Winchester talks to Ron Rash and Ann Pancake. A special thanks to Jeremy B. Jones and Western Carolina University for hosting us at the 22nd Spring Literary Festival.

Books Mentioned

• Above the Waterfall by Ron Rash
• The Risen by Ron Rash
• Strange As This Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake
• The Stories of Breece d'j Pancake by Breece d’j Pancake
• Black Ticket: Stories by Jane Anne Phillips
• Clearing in the Sky & Other Stories by Jesse Stuart
• The Knockout Artist by Harry Crews
• I Am One of You Forever by Fred Chappell

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Ron Rash: Website
Ann Pancake: Website
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In this special edition of Poetry Corner, host Kendra Winchester is joined in conversation with poets Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr., Rahul Mehta, and Doug Van Gundy. A special thanks to the librarians at Western Carolina University for helping arrange this recording.

Books Mentioned

• Gay Poems for Read States by Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.
• Feeding Ghosts by Rahul Mehta
• A Life Above Water by Doug Van Gundy

Guest Info

Doug Van Gundy

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Rahul Mehta

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Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.

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In the latest installment of our minisode series, Poetry Corner, Kendra Winchester is joined by Ohio Poet Laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour.

Books Mentioned

• Dirt Songs by Kari Gunter-Seymour
• Alone in the House of My Heart: Poems by Kari Gunter-Seymour
• Women Speak Volume 9 edited by Kari Gunter-Seymour

Things Mentioned

• Women of Appalachia Project

Guest Info
Kari Gunter-Seymour
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Host Kendra Winchester talks to Neema Avashia and Sarah Lemon about their experience carving out the time to write.

Things Mentioned

• Lemon’s Substack, The Devil’s Cut

Books Mentioned

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Neema Avashia
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Sarah Nicole Lemon
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