Critical Humanities is an open-access, peer reviewed, multi-disciplinary and international bi-annual academic journal devoted to publishing critical debates and discussions on the culture, history, literature, politics, and theory emerging from the Global South. We are also interested in glancing comparatively at the American South, and at ethnic, immigrant and indigenous America.
Current Issue: Volume 4, Issue 2 (2025) Poetry Special Issue
Introduction
Poetry Special Issue: Editor’s Introduction
Megan Hutchinson
Poetry
"Alive" and Other Poems
Doug Van Gundy
"Where's Mimicry" and "Broodings"
Mary B. Moore
"Mother Ghazal (2024)" and "Sand Dollar (1984)"
Sara Henning
"The Rule of Luminescence" and "If You Stumble Across This Comment"
Brian Wallace Baker
"Memory-Go-Round" and Other Poems
Chrissie Anderson Peters
"Reading the Tea Leaves with My 3rd Great-Grandmother" and "The Wild Swans: 3 Woodcuts"
Pauletta Hansel
"Eavesdropping on Angels" and "Dizain I"
Tom C. Hunley
"Appalachian Mourning Song "
Christina Fisanick
"Route 19, Near Odin West Virginia" and Other Poems
Jessica D. Thompson
"Falling in Love with John the Baptist While Attending Godspell at the Local Dinner Theatre"
Patti Clay Miller
"You Will Never Leave Us"
Hilda Downer
"Can You Hear the Earth Shift?" and "An Act of Nature"
John C. Mannone
Interviews
A Lyrical Life: An Interview with Doug Van Gundy on Teaching, Writing, and the Influence of Music
Doug Van Gundy and Megan Hutchinson
Uncovering 14 Generations: An Interview with Pauletta Hansel on Appalachia, Genealogy, and Her Forthcoming Hybrid Collection
Pauletta Hansel and Megan Hutchinson
Special Issue Editor
- Megan Hutchinson