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Gravy
We asked ourselves: If some of our best work came to life each year at our flagship Symposium, why weren’t we sharing…
Nothing illustrates the invention of Appalachia better than Dollywood.
Giovanni’s poetry and Weeks’ food entwined that night. They were invitations to let go of what we’d done before and go…
My Mother's afternoon visits with the neighbors added to her pantry and to her box of recipes.
When tourists come, they might reduce Kentucky to what they quaff from a snifter. And after our afternoon at…
Sandra Beasley, is the author of three poetry collections–Count the Waves; I Was the Jukebox; and Theories of…
Ashley M. Jones is the recipient of a Rona Jaffee Foundation Award, and her debut collection, Magic City Gospel, won…
Iliana Rocha’s debut collection, Karankawa, won the 2014 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. She teaches at the…
Nikki Giovanni was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1943. Since 1987 she has been on the faculty at Virginia Tech,…
