Participation Type
Performance
Session Title
Session 7.15 Literature
Session Abstract or Summary
Three women poets will read from their current and previous works. Jane Hicks will read from Driving with the Dead (University Press of Kentucky, 2014). Rita Quillen will read from Something Solid To Anchor To (Finishing Line Press, 2014) and Catherine Prichard-Childress will read from a work in progress. The Three women grew up in either East Tennessee or Southwest Virginia and still live and write there. Three voices speaking from inside Appalachia and speak as women. Their poems will focus on women, work, and family relationships set within the Appalachian region.
Presentation #1 Title
Undomesticated: Women Poets Writing from Home
Presentation #1 Abstract or Summary
Jane Hicks will read poems from her current book, Driving with the Dead, and from her first book, Blood and Bone Remember.
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #1
A native of upper East Tennessee, Jane Hicks is an award-winning poet and quilter. Her poetry appears in both journals and numerous anthologies, including Southern Poetry Anthology: Contemporary Appalachia and Southern Poetry Anthology: Tennessee. Her first book, Blood and Bone Remember, was nominated for and won several awards. The University Press of Kentucky published her latest poetry book, Driving with the Dead, in the fall of 2014.
Presentation #2 Title
Undomesticated: Women Poets Writing from Home
Presentation #2 Abstract or Summary
Rita Quillen will read poems from her current book, Something Solid to to Anchor to, and from previous works.
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #2
Rita Quillen’s novel Hiding Ezra was just released in March of 2014 from Little Creek Books; it was a finalist in the 2005 DANA Awards competition, and a chapter of the novel is included in the new scholarly study of Appalachian dialect just published by the University of Kentucky Press entitled Talking Appalachian. Her new poetry chapbook, Something Solid To Anchor To,was published by Finishing Line Press in 2014, as well. She lives and farms on Early Autumn Farm in Scott County, Virginia.
Presentation #3 Title
Undomesticated: Women Poets Writing from Home
Presentation #3 Abstract or Summary
Catherine Prichard childress will read poetry her new work, Other.
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #3
Catherine Pritchard Childress lives in the shadow of Roan Mountain in East Tennessee where she teaches writing and literature at East Tennessee State University and Northeast State Community College. Her poems has appeared in North American Review, Louisana Literature, Connecticut Review, The Cape Rock, Appalachian Heritage, Still: The Journal, and drafthorse among other journals, and has been anthologized in The Southern Poetry Anthologies, Volumes VI and VII: Tennessee and North Carolina. She is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection Other (Finishing Line Press, 2015).
Undomesticated: Women Poets Writing from Home
Jane Hicks will read poems from her current book, Driving with the Dead, and from her first book, Blood and Bone Remember.
