Participation Type
Reading
Session Title
Session 11.11 Readings
Presentation #1 Title
Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel Literary Journal: A reading from Volume 17: Tricksters, Truthtellers and Lost Souls
Presentation #1 Abstract or Summary
Join us for a lively and enlightening reading from the current issue of Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, the literary journal of the Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative. Journal editors Pauletta Hansel, Michael Henson and Sherry Stanforth, and contributors Marc Harshman, Dana Wildsmith, Marianne Worthington, Omope Carter Daboiku, Gail Amburgey, Dale Marie Prenatt, Jenny Barton Chadourne, Rhonda Pettit and Ron Houchin will read from Volume 17, Tricksters, Truthtellers and Lost Souls, containing poems, stories, and essays celebrating, bemoaning, mourning, depicting, admiring or rejecting Appalachia’s tricksters, truthtellers and lost souls, present and past. Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, a literary journal focusing on writers from the Appalachian Mountains, has been a regular publication since 1984. It has no institutional support, but rather is a grassroots effort of writers, editors and activists from the region. With content ranging from stories based in traditional folktales to the postmodern lyric poem, this session will both entertain and provide an opportunity to hear and meet both well-known and emerging Appalachian writers from across the region. The reading will be followed by Q & A about the journal’s past and its plans for the future.
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #1
Pauletta Hansel (Convener), Thomas More College Writer in Residence, is the co-editor of Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel and the author of three books of poetry, Divining (Woven Word Press, 2002) What I Did There (Dos Madres Press, 2011) and The Lives We Live in Houses (Wind Publications, 2011).
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #2
Sherry Cook Stanforth is the Creative Writing Vision Program Director at Thomas More College and co-editor of PMS&G. Her work appears in Motif, Still: The Journal, Indiana Review, MELUS, Language and Lore, Anthology of Appalachian Writers and NCTE books.
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #3
Michael Henson is co-editor of Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel and author of the poetry collections Crow Call, The Tao of Longing and the Body Geographic, and the Dead Singing, plus three works of fiction, Tommy Perdue, Ransack and A Small Room With Trouble on My Mind.
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #4
Marc Harshman is the poet laureate of West Virginia. Recent poetry collections inlcude Green-Silver And Silent and All That Feeds Us: The West Virginia Poems. He lives in Wheeling, West Virginia and holds degrees from Bethany College, Yale University Divinity School, and the University of Pittsburgh.
Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel Literary Journal: A reading from Volume 17: Tricksters, Truthtellers and Lost Souls
Corbly Hall 268
Join us for a lively and enlightening reading from the current issue of Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, the literary journal of the Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative. Journal editors Pauletta Hansel, Michael Henson and Sherry Stanforth, and contributors Marc Harshman, Dana Wildsmith, Marianne Worthington, Omope Carter Daboiku, Gail Amburgey, Dale Marie Prenatt, Jenny Barton Chadourne, Rhonda Pettit and Ron Houchin will read from Volume 17, Tricksters, Truthtellers and Lost Souls, containing poems, stories, and essays celebrating, bemoaning, mourning, depicting, admiring or rejecting Appalachia’s tricksters, truthtellers and lost souls, present and past. Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, a literary journal focusing on writers from the Appalachian Mountains, has been a regular publication since 1984. It has no institutional support, but rather is a grassroots effort of writers, editors and activists from the region. With content ranging from stories based in traditional folktales to the postmodern lyric poem, this session will both entertain and provide an opportunity to hear and meet both well-known and emerging Appalachian writers from across the region. The reading will be followed by Q & A about the journal’s past and its plans for the future.
