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Creating West Virginia: Through poetry and action Crystal Good builds community
by Beth Newberry Crystal Good’s poetry readings aren’t for a lazy listener. They are a patchwork of history lessons, current-events coverage and literary word play all sewn-up with an electric and...
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Mother Jones of Marfork Holler: Remembering Judy Bonds
by Beth Newberry Judy Bonds of Whitesville, W.Va., was an activist and community organizer, who in the latter part of her 58 years, tried to end the Mountaintop Removal (MTR) method of strip mining,...
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Appalachia’s Patron Saint
By Jason Howard This is the third installment of our tribute to the life and work of community activist and outspoken mountain mama, Judy Bonds, who passed away a year ago this week. Here, friend and...
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A Knoxville Poem: Pentecost 1965
Marianne Worthington is co-founder and poetry editor of Still: The Journal, an online literary journal publishing contemporary literature of Central Appalachia and the Mountain South. She grew up in...
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Rural Reads
By Beth Newberry We’ve collected a short list of a few blogs we read to keep us in touch with our rural roots. These blogs are kin to The HillVille in the shared purpose of uplifting folklore, current...
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Appalachian Poets Confront “StereoType”
This week we explore not only mass media portrayal of Appalachians, but the ways Apps respond to stereotyping. Contributor Abby Malik reports on how six writers dismantle stereotypes and misconceptions...
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Chatting with Scholar, Author Emily Satterwhite
By Niki King We here at The HillVille can’t get enough of Emily Satterwhite’s thought-provoking book Dear Appalachia: Readers, Identity, and Popular Fiction since 1878, in which she examines how...
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Books for the Roots and Boots Buff
By Niki King Here are a few fave rootsy music reads we’ve come across recently, loved well through the years and are looking forward to in the near future. Some years back, friends and I were gathered...
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Plugging In: Appalachia Online
By Niki King I’ve been thinking a lot about social media lately. It’s a residual warm and cozy feeling leftover from the Appalachian Studies Association conference in Indiana, Pa., this March. Beth...
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Rendering the Rural World Visible: A Review of “Render: An Apocalypse”
By Jeremy Dae Paden Rebecca Gayle Howell’s first full-length book, Render: An Apocalypse, which won the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize for 2012 is beautiful. Its physical dimensions,...
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