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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. |