The newest issue of Southern Humanities Review is introduced by Guest Poetry Editor Jeremy Paden, “On Appalachian Roots,” which opens:
“Who gets to speak for a region? What voices, stories, and accents get to represent a place? And when the place is as vast as Appalachia, one that spans thirteen states and is divided into five subregions? [. . . ] Once J.D. Vance was picked as the vice presidential running mate for the Republican ticket in the summer of 2024, his 2016 book, Hillbilly Elegy, returned to bestseller lists and the national conversation. As a result, I was asked to curate a selection of poems on Appalachia by Appalachians. After all, whatever people think of his memoir, it is not about Appalachia.”
Those poets featured here include Willie Carver, Bernard Clay, Dorian Hairston, Pauletta Hansel, Marc Harshman, Jane Hicks, Silas House, Lisa J. Parker, Randi Ward, William Woolfitt, and Marianne Worthington. The issue also includes nonfiction by Joanna Acevedo and Madeline Jones, and fiction by Sara Levine, Sumita Mukherji, Enyinna Nnabuihe, and Cotton O’Connell. Cover art by Frederic Edwin Church, Storm in the Mountains, 1847, oil on canvas.
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