Participation Type
Panel
Session Title
Appalachians Using Language as an Issue of Trust
Session Abstract or Summary
We can advance our knowledge, empower Appalachian communities and contribute to social change by gathering life narratives. Through language we recover the past, discover,honor and celebrate struggles, everyday heroes and plan a better tomorrow.Collecting diverse narratives helps us as a region and nation to bridge differences, face challenges (opioids) and celebrate a collective past. To be heard and understood fosters the best life now. Personal infrastructure suffers because of silence, a contagion that's caught and taught. Jeanne Bryner will discuss a new anthology concerning education of healers/role models. Marc Harshman will offer a lecture/reading about poems that mirror healing and comfort, illness and attention. Pauletta Hansel will read from Palindrome, reflect on poetry to process grief and helping others through writing workshops.
Presentation #1 Title
Appalachians Using Language as an Issue of Trust
Presentation #1 Abstract or Summary
We can advance our knowledge, empower Appalachian communities and contribute to social change by gathering life narratives. Through language we recover the past,discover, honor and celebrate struggles, everyday heroes and plan a better tomorrow.Collecting diverse narratives helps us as a region and nation to bridge differences, face present challenges (opioids) and celebrate a collective past. To be heard and understood fosters a better life now. Personal infrastructure suffers because of silence, a contagion that's caught and taught. Jeanne Bryner will discuss a new anthology about the education of healers/role models. Marc Harshman will offer a lecture/reading about poems that mirror healing and comfort, illness and attention. Pauletta Hansel will read from her poetry collection, Palindrome, reflect on poetry to process grief and helping others throughtwriting workshops.
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #1
Jeanne Bryner is an independent artist, scholar and retired nurse from Appalachia.She has written poetry collections, short fiction, plays and non-fiction. She's received writing fellowships from Bucknell University, the Ohio Arts Council and Vermont Studio Center. She's a graduate of Trumbull Memorial Hospital School of Nursing and Kent State University's Honors College.
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #2
Pauletta Hansel is author of six poetry collections, including Palindrome (Dos Madres Press, 2017), winner of ASA's 2017 Weatherford Award for best Appalachian poetry book. She was Cincinnati's first Poet Laureate from April 2016- March 2018, Writer-In-Residence at Thomas More College, Crestview Hills, KY and has an MFA from Queens College of North Carolina.
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #3
Marc Harshman's the seventh poet laureate of West Virginia and an award winningchildren's book author. Falling Water, co-written with Anna Smucker, (Roaring Book/Macmillan, 2017), has been an Amazon Book of the Month choice, as well as a Junior Literary Guild selection. He received the ASA's 2016 Weatherford Award for his poetry collection, Believe What You Can (WVU Press). He holds degrees from Bethany College, Yale University Divinity School, and the University of Pittsburgh.
Appalachians Using Language as an Issue of Trust
We can advance our knowledge, empower Appalachian communities and contribute to social change by gathering life narratives. Through language we recover the past,discover, honor and celebrate struggles, everyday heroes and plan a better tomorrow.Collecting diverse narratives helps us as a region and nation to bridge differences, face present challenges (opioids) and celebrate a collective past. To be heard and understood fosters a better life now. Personal infrastructure suffers because of silence, a contagion that's caught and taught. Jeanne Bryner will discuss a new anthology about the education of healers/role models. Marc Harshman will offer a lecture/reading about poems that mirror healing and comfort, illness and attention. Pauletta Hansel will read from her poetry collection, Palindrome, reflect on poetry to process grief and helping others throughtwriting workshops.
