Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sheila Kay Adams 6 -- Easter Frock, from Come Go Home With Me 8 -- / Dorothy Allison 10 -- from Bastard Out of Carolina 12 -- / Lisa Alther 17 -- from Five Minutes in Heaven 19 -- / Maggie Anderson 22 -- Ontological 24 -- Long Story 25 -- Sonnet for Her Labor 27 -- A Place with Promise 28 -- / Anne W. Armstrong 30 -- from This Day and Time 32 -- / Harriette Simpson Arnow 36 -- from Hunter's Horn 38 -- from Seedtime on the Cumberland 40 -- First Ride 42 -- / Sylvia Trent Auxier 47 -- Neighbors 49 -- When Grandmother Wept 49 -- Cicada's Song 50 -- Someday in a Wood 51 -- Stair 51 -- / Marilou Awiakta 52 -- Women Die Like Trees 54 -- When Earth Becomes an "It" 54 -- Anorexia Bulimia Speaks from the Grave 55 -- A Time to Reweave, from Selu 56 -- A Time to Study Law, from Selu 57 -- Out of Ashes Peace Will Rise 61 -- / Artie Ann Bates 62 -- Belinda, Our Tremendous Gift 64 -- / Frances Courtenay Baylor 69 -- from Behind the Blue Ridge 71 -- / Sue Ellen Bridgers 72 -- from Sara Will 74 -- / Florence Cope Bush 77 -- from Dorie: Woman of the Mountains 79 -- / Kathryn Stripling Byer 81 -- Wildwood Flower 83 -- Bittersweet 84 -- Lineage 84 -- Easter 86 -- Mountain Time 87 -- / Candie Carawan 89 -- from Sing for Freedom 91 -- / Jo Carson 95 -- 40, from Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet 97 -- 49, from Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet 98 -- from Maybe, The Last of the 'Waltz Across Texas' and Other Stories 99 -- from Daytrips 102 -- / Rebecca Caudill 106 -- from My Appalachia 108 -- / Lillie D. Chaffin 112 -- Second Christmas 114 -- Spending the Night 114 -- Discipline 115 -- Glad Gardener 116 -- / Loletta Clouse 117 -- from Wilder 119 -- / Ann Cobb 123 -- Boy 124 -- Hospitality 125 -- Widow Man 125 -- Kivers 126 -- / Lisa Coffman 128 -- In Envy of Migration 130 -- About the Pelvis 133 -- Tick 134 -- / Amy Tipton Cortner 136 -- Hillbilly Vampire 138 -- Vampire Ethnographer 139 -- No Minority 140 -- / Lou V.P. Crabtree 141 -- Homer-Snake, from Sweet Hollow 143 -- Sister 150 -- Sports Widow 151 -- / Olive Tilford Dargan [Fielding Burke] 152 -- from Call Home the Heart 154 -- / Doris Davenport 156 -- Country 158 -- For Dr. Josefina Garcia & the "Tissue Committee" 159 -- Zora neale 161 -- / Rebecca Harding Davis 162 -- from Life in the Iron Mills 164 -- / Ann Deagon 168 -- Giving the Sun 170 -- Hole 170 -- Twins 171 -- Poetics South 172 -- In a Time of Drought 173 -- Broadside 173 -- / Angelyn DeBord 174 -- from Praise House 176 -- / Annie Dillard 179 -- from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek 181 -- / Hilda Downer 183 -- This is what history is 185 -- A woman is segmented as an ant 185 -- Every open space fills with sky 186 -- / Muriel Miller Dressler 188 -- Appalachia 190 -- Elegy For Jody 191 -- / Will Allen Dromgoole 192 -- from Fiddling His Way to Fame, The Heart of Old Hickory 194 -- / Wilma Dykeman 197 -- from Return the Innocent Earth 199 -- from The French Broad 204 -- / Sarah Barnwell Elliott 208 -- from The Durket Sperret 210 -- / Sidney Saylor Farr 213 -- from More than Moonshine 215 -- Granny Brock 217 -- Mountains Fill Up the Night 218 -- Appalachia, Where are your Hills? 219 -- / Nikky Finney 220 -- from Queen Ida's Hair-Doing House of Waves, Heartwood 222 -- Irons At Her Feet 225 -- / Lucy Furman 227 -- from Sight to the Blind 229 -- / Denise Giardina 231 -- from Storming Heaven 234 -- from The Unquiet Earth 236 -- / Janice Holt Giles 240 -- from Hannah Fowler 242 -- / Nikki Giovanni 245 -- Griots, from Racism 101 247 -- Knoxville, Tennessee 249 -- Revolutionary Dreams 250 -- A Poem Off Center 250 -- / Gail Godwin 252 -- from A Southern Family 254 -- / Connie Jordan Green 257 -- from The War at Home 259 -- / Virginia Hamilton 262 -- from M.C. Higgins the Great 264 -- / Pauletta Hansel 267 -- Writing Lessons (I.) 269 -- She 270 -- Writing Lessons (II.) 271 -- To her mother, lying in state 272 -- / Corra Harris 274 -- from A Circuit Rider's Wife 276 -- / Mildred Haun 277 -- from The Hawk's Done Gone 279 -- / Ellesa Clay High 282 -- from Past Titan Rock 284 -- / Mary Bozeman Hodges 287 -- Ms. Ida Mae, from Tough Customers and Other Stories 289 -- / Gloria Houston 292 -- from My Great-Aunt Arizona 294 -- / Lee Howard 298 -- Momma's Letter 299 -- Last Unmined Vein 300 -- / Mary Johnston 303 -- from The Long Roll 305 -- / Mary Harris "Mother" Jones 307 -- from The Autobiography of Mother Jones 309 -- / Jane Wilson Joyce 311 -- Life and Art in East Tennessee 312 -- Hooked Album Quilt, 1870 313 -- / May Justus 315 -- Weather Rhymes 317 -- / Edith Summers Kelley 319 -- from Weeds 321 -- / Leatha Kendrick 323 -- from No Place Like Home 325 -- Familiar Level 327 -- Refusing a Spinal 328 -- / Barbara Kingsolver 330 -- from The Bean Trees 332 -- from Prodigal Summer 336 -- / Lisa Koger 338 -- from Extended Learning, Farlanburg Stories 340 -- / Catherine Landis 346 -- from Some Days There's Pie 348 -- / Lily May Ledford 353 -- from Coon Creek Girl 355 -- / Grace Lumpkin 358 -- from To Make My Bread 360 -- / George Ella Lyon 364 -- from With A Hammer for My Heart 366 -- Where I'm From 370 -- Rings 371 -- Salvation 372 -- Growing Light 373 -- / Linda Parsons Marion 374 -- Mulberries 376 -- To My Daughter Going Off to College 377 -- Welcome to the Other Side 379 -- Good Luck Charm 380 -- / Catherine Marshall 381 -- from Christy 383 -- / Belinda Ann Mason 386 -- Gifts of the Spirit 388 -- / Kathy L.

May 391 -- Rain 392 -- Saved 393 -- Ascension 394 -- / Truda Williams McCoy 396 -- from The McCoys 397 -- / Sharyn McCrumb 400 -- from The Songcatcher 402 -- / Jeanne McDonald 407 -- from Up the Hill toward Home 409 -- / Karen Salyer McElmurray 413 -- from Mother of the Disappeared: An Appalachian Birth Mother's Journey 415 -- / Llewellyn McKernan 419 -- Many Waters 421 -- For My Grandmother Who Knows How 423 -- Hollow 424 -- Mother Milking 425 -- Music 426 -- / Irene McKinney 428 -- Twilight in West Virginia: Six O'Clock Mine Report 430 -- Deep Mining 431 -- Sunday Morning, 1950 432 -- Only Portrait of Emily Dickinson 433 -- Visiting My Gravesite: Talbott Churchyard, West Virginia 434 -- / Louise McNeill 435 -- Other Woman 437 -- Aubade to Fear (Heavy with Child) 437 -- Hill Daughter 438 -- Arrow Grasses by Greenbrier River 439 -- from The Milkweed Ladies 440 -- / Jane Merchant 442 -- Lanterns and Lamps 443 -- First Plowing in the Hills 444 -- / Emma Bell Miles 445 -- from The Spirit of the Mountains 447 -- / Heather Ross Miller 449 -- from The Edge of the Woods 451 -- Seventh Grades 453 -- Breadstuff 454 -- / Janice Townley Moore 455 -- All Those Nights 456 -- Under The Earth 457 -- Way Back 458 -- / MariJo Moore 459 -- Story is a Woman 461 -- Solidarity in the Night 462 -- Ahlawe Usv' Tsigesvgi 463 -- Rumors, from Red Woman With Backward Eyes 464 -- / Mary Noailles Murfree 468 -- from In the Tennessee Mountains 470 -- / Elaine Fowler Palencia 472 -- Briers, from Brier Country: Stories from the Blue Valley 474 -- / Jayne Anne Phillips 478 -- from Machine Dreams 480 -- from Motherkind 484 -- / Lynn Powell 487 -- Nativity 489 -- Echocardiogram 490 -- Calling 492 -- / Barbara Presnell 494 -- In the Kitchen We String Beans 496 -- Clarissa and the Second Coming 497 -- When You Lose a Child 498 -- Snake Dreams 500 -- / Rita Sims Quillen 501 -- July 18, 1966 503 -- Woman Writer 504 -- I Used To Be A Teacup 505 -- Discovered 506 -- How Do You Remember Him? 507 -- / Jean Ritchie 508 -- from Singing Family of the Cumberlands 510 -- / Elizabeth Madox Roberts 513 -- from The Time of Man 515 -- / Anne Newport Royall 517 -- from Sketches of History, Life, and Manners, in the United States 519 -- / Cynthia Rylant 521 -- from Missing May 523 -- / Bettie Sellers 526 -- Pink 528 -- Mornings, Sheba Combs Her Hair 529 -- Liza's Monday 530 -- Morning of the Red-Tailed Hawk 531 -- All On A Summer's Afternoon 532 -- Legacy For Rachel 533 -- / Mary Lee Settle 534 -- from Addie 536 -- from The Killing Ground 539 -- / Anne Shelby 543 -- Why I Write 545 -- Fat Sestina 546 -- Spellcheck 548 -- / Muriel Earley Sheppard 549 -- from Cabins in the Laurel 551 -- / Betsy Sholl 554 -- Appalachian Winter 556 -- / Ellen Harvey Showell 560 -- from Our Mountain 562 -- / Bennie Lee Sinclair 565 -- Homecoming 567 -- Kathy 567 -- My Father. His Rabbits 568 -- Backwoods Haiku 569 -- / Verna Mae Slone 570 -- from What My Heart Wants to Tell 572 -- / Barbara Smith 574 -- Bad News 576 -- And This Is The Way To Be Poor 577 -- Language of Poetry 578 -- / Effie Waller Smith 579 -- Memories of Home 581 -- / Lee Smith 583 -- from Saving Grace 585 -- / Jane Stuart 591 -- Cycles from Transparencies 593 -- Where Stuarts Lie 594 -- Roots 594 -- Composition 595 -- / Adriana Trigiani 596 -- from Big Stone Gap 598 -- / Dana Wildsmith 602 -- Economy 603 -- New Poor 603 -- A Dry Spring 604 -- Our Bodies Remember 605 -- Force 607 -- / Sylvia Wilkinson 608 -- from Shadow of the Mountain 610 -- / Meredith Sue Willis 613 -- My Boy Elroy, from In the Mountains of America 615 -- / Leigh Allison Wilson 624 -- from The Raising, From the Bottom Up 625 -- / Mary Elizabeth Witherspoon 628 -- from The Morning Cool 630 -- More Women Writing in Appalachia 635.