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Some Chief Appalachian Poets (Please
add
suggestions
to
this
partial
list
by
contacting
Larry
Smith
of
Bottom
Dog
Press
at Lsmithdog@aol.com;
thanks to Eddy Pendarvis, Larry Richman, Richard Hague, Lynn Powell,
Maggie
Anderson
&
Charles
Dodd
White
for
help
with
this
list.) (Revised
April 7, 2011)
Gilbert
Allen,
In
Everything
(1986 );
Driving
to
Distraction
( 2003 ). Maggie
Anderson,
A
Space
Filled
with
Moving
(1992);
Windfall:
New
and
Selected
Poems
(2000). Tom
Andrews, The Hemophiliac's
Motorcyucle (1994). Marilou Awiakta, Abiding Appalachia: Where Mountain and Atom Meet (1986; 2006). Bob
Henry Baber,
George
Ella Lyon and
Gurney Norman. Old
Wounds, New Words: Poems from the Appalachian
Poetry Project.(1994). Joseph Barrett, Roots Deep in Sand, Periods of Ludicity. Laura
Treacy Bentley, Lake
Effect (2006). Roy Bentley, Any One Man (1992); Strange Privacies (2006). Wendell Berry, Collected Poems (1987); A Timber Choir: The Sabbath Poems (1999); The Country of Marriage (1975); Given: New Poems (2006); The Mad Farmer Poems (2008). Elaine Blue, Moods and Works of Blue (1985). Kathryn
Stripling
Byer,
Wildwood Flower (1992); Black
Shawl:
Poems
(1998); Coming to Rest (2006) Jeanne
Bryner,
Blind
Horse
(1999);
No
Matter
How
Many
Windows (2010) Jo
Carson, Stories I Ain't Told
Nobody Yet. (1993). Fred
Chappell, Shadow
Box: Poems (2009);
First and Last Words (1989);
Family Gathering (2000). Jim Clark, Dancing on Canaan’s Ruins (1997); Handiwork (1998). Geraldine Connolly, Flood for the Winter ( ); Hand of the Wind ( ). Lou
V.
Crabtree,
The River Hills and
Beyond (1995) Mark
DeFoe, Aviary
(2001);
The Green Chair (2003). Victor Depta, The Silence of Blackberries (1999); An Afterthought of Light (2007). Charles
B.
Dickson,
A Touch of Wholeness (1986); A Moon in Each Eye (1993). Julia Nunnally Duncan. An Endless Tapestry (2007); At Dusk (2010). Joe Enzweiler, The Man Who Odered Perch (2004). Nikky
Finney, Rice (1995);
The World Is Round (2003). Diane Gilliam Fisher, Kettle Bottom (2004); One of Everything (2003). Nikki Giovanni, Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day (1980); Sacred Cows…and Other Edibles (1989); Spin a Soft Black Song (1987); Love Poems (1997); The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni (2007). James B
Goode. Up from the Mines (1993). Chris Green, Rushlight: Poems (2009). Richard
Hague,
Ripening
(1984);
Alive
in
Hard
Country
(2003);
Public Hearings (2010). Marc Harshman, Turning Out the Stones (1983); Rose of Sharon; Local Journeys. Jane Hicks, Blood and Bone Remember: Poems from Appalachia (2005 ). Ron
Houchin,
Museum
Crows (2010). David Huddle, Summer Lake (1999); Grayscale (2004); Glory River (2008). Charles Hughes, Shifting for Myself (2002); Body and Blood (2010). Don Johnson, Here and Gone: Selected Poems (2009). Judy Jordan, Carolina Ghost Woods (2000 ); 60 Cent Coffee and a Quarter to Dance (2005). Norman Jordan, Where Do People in Dreams Come From
(2004). Leatha Kendrick, Second Opinion (2008). Stephen
Knauth,
Twenty Shadowns (1995); The River I Know You By (1999). Mary
Kratt,
Small Potatoes (1999). P.
J.
Laska,
Night and Day (2010). George Ella Lyon, Mountain; Catalpa (2007). Jeff
Daniel
Marion,
Ebbing
and
Flowing
Springs
(2002); New and Selected Poems and Prose
(1976-2001). Linda
Parsons
Marion,
Mother Land (2008). Maurice Manning,
Bucolics (2008); The Common Man (2010). Michael McFee, Colander (1996); Earthly (2001). John McKernan, Resurrection of Dust (2007). Llewellyn McKernan, Short and Simple Annals (1983). Irene
McKinney,
Vivid
Companion
(2004);
Quick
Fire,
Slow
Fire (1989);
Unthinkable: Selected Poems (2008);
Six
O’clock
Mine
Report
(2009).
Louise McNiell, Eldeberry Flood (1979); Hill Daughter (1991); Paradox Hill (2009). Jim
Wayne Miller, Dialogue with a
Dead Man (1974); The Mountains Have Come Closer (1980); Nostalgia
for
70
(1986); The Brier Poems (1997). Jim
Minick,
Her
Secret Song (2006); Burning Heaven (2008).
Robert Morgan, The Strange Attractor: New and Selected Poems (2004). Valerie
Nieman,
Fidelities (2004); Wake, Wake, Wake (2006). Edwina Pendarvis, Like the Mountains of China (2003). Lee
Pennington, Songs of Bloody Harlan (1975); I Knew a Woman (1977); Thigmotropoism (1991). Lynn Powell,
Old and New Testament (1995); The Zones of Paradise (2003). Ron Rash, Among the Believers (2000); Eureka Mill (2001); Raising the Dead (2002). Sam
Rasnick, Necessary
Motions
(1998); Inside
a
Broker
Clock
(2010). Steve
Scafidi, Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer
(2001); For Love of Common Words
(2006). George
Scarbrough,
Tellico Blue (1952, 2nd. 1999); New and Selected Poems (1977); Invitation to Kim (1989). Bettie
Sellers,
Wild Ginger (2006). Vivian
Shipley,
Poems out of Harlan County (1989); All Your Messages Have Been Erased
(2010). Effie Waller Smith. The Collected Works of Effie Waller Smith (1991). Larry
Smith,
Milldust
and
Roses
(2002);
A
River
Remains
(2006). Noel
Smith.
The Well Spring (2008). R.T. Smith, Split the Lark: Selected Poems (2000); Outlaw Style (2007). Katherine
Soniat,
Cracking Eggs (1990). Philip
St.
Clair,
Divided
House (2005). James Still, The Wolfpen Poems (1986); From the Mountain, From the Valley: New and Collected Poems (2005). Art
Stringer, Human
Costume (2010). Dabney Stuart, Family Preserve (2005). Jesse Stuart, Album of Destiny (1944); The World of Jesse Stuart; Selected Poems (1975); Hold April: New Poems (1979); Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow (1999). Robert
L.
Tener,
Depression
Days
on
an
Appalachian
Farm
(2006). Frank
X. Walker, Black
Box
(2005);
Affrilachia (2000). Don
West.
No
Lonesome
Road:
Selected
Prose
and
Poetry
(2004). John Foster West, Wry Wine (1977). Dana
Wildsmith, One
Good Hand (2005). Jonathan Williams, Blues & Roots, Rue & Bluets: A Garland for the Southern Appalachians (1985); Jubilant Thicket: New and Selected Poems (2005). Marianne
Worthington, Larger
Bodies than Ours (2007).
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