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is a virtual key to the treasury of writing on Appalachia by the women whose knowledge of the region stands out most prominently. Nowhere else can you find in one volume so much biographical and bibliographical information on more than a hundred creators of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama from the Southern mountains. This is a long-needed resource that will be indispensable from the day of its publication. I hope and expect it will become a primary reference that steers readers not only to the most famous women writers of Appalachia, but to the lesser-known ones as well.”

—John Egerton, author of
Generations: An American Family

“This is the culmination of long dedication and a big vision and has been much anticipated. We all owe Sandy Ballard and Pat Hudson huge thanks for compiling such a compelling and necessary addition to our collective literature.”

—Jerry W. Williamson, Appalachian State University

“It is common knowledge that women have been instrumental in shaping genres and creating traditions in Appalachian writing for well over a century and a quarter, but when their contribution is viewed comprehensively, a collective genius, which is not to deny any individual genius, shines through, creating not merely surprise but a shock of recognition…of the range and quality of their writing. Remedies of all kinds form a substantial part of Appalachian folklore.
Listen Here
is also a remedy, not for aches and pains, but for oversight or indifference of much of our cultural and literary heritage. The store of jewels in our own house, we come to realize in reading it, is greater than many of us ever realized. The symbol for the selections here is a garden with diversity and beauty for many tastes. Here is the perfect illustration of the flowering of Appalachian writing where the blooming itself has not been late, but only the critical recognition of it.”

—Robert J. Higgs, East Tennessee State University

L
ISTEN
H
ERE

Women Writing in Appalachia

E
DITED BY
S
ANDRA
L. B
ALLARD AND
P
ATRICIA
L. H
UDSON

THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY

Copyright © 2003 by The University Press of Kentucky

Scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth,
serving Bellarmine University, Berea College, Centre
College of Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky University, The Filson Historical Society, Georgetown College, Kentucky Historical Society, Kentucky State University, Morehead State University, Murray State University, Northern Kentucky University, Transylvania University, University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, and Western Kentucky University.

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C
ONTENTS

Chronology of Works

Acknowledgements

About the Editors

Introduction

S
HEILA
K
AY
A
DAMS

The Easter Frock, from
Come Go Home With Me

D
OROTHY
A
LLISON

from
Bastard Out of Carolina

L
ISA
A
LTHER

from
Five Minutes in Heaven

M
AGGIE
A
NDERSON

Ontological

Long Story

Sonnet for Her Labor

A Place with Promise

A
NNE
W. A
RMSTRONG

from
This Day and Time

H
ARRIETTE
S
IMPSON
A
RNOW

from
Hunter's Horn

from
Seedtime on the Cumberland

The First Ride

S
YLVIA
T
RENT
A
UXIER

Neighbors

When Grandmother Wept

Cicada's Song

Someday in a Wood

The Stair

M
ARILOU
A
WIAKTA

Women Die Like Trees

When Earth Becomes an “It”

Anorexia Bulimia Speaks from the Grave

A Time to Reweave, from
Selu

A Time to Study Law, from
Selu

Out of Ashes Peace Will Rise

A
RTIE
A
NN
B
ATES

Belinda, Our Tremendous Gift

F
RANCES
C
OURTENAY
B
AYLOR

from
Behind the Blue Ridge

S
UE
E
LLEN
B
RIDGERS

from
Sara Will

F
LORENCE
C
OPE
B
USH

from
Dorie: Woman of the Mountains

K
ATHRYN
S
TRIPLING
B
YER

Wildwood Flower

Bittersweet

Lineage

Easter

Mountain Time

C
ANDIE
C
ARAWAN

from
Sing for Freedom

J
O
C
ARSON

40, from
Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet

49, from
Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet

from Maybe,
The Last of the ‘Waltz Across Texas' and Other Stories

from
Daytrips

R
EBECCA
C
AUDILL

from
My Appalachia

L
ILLIE
D. C
HAFFIN

Second Christmas

Spending the Night

Discipline

The Glad Gardener

L
OLETTA
C
LOUSE

from
Wilder

A
NN
C
OBB

The Boy

Hospitality

The Widow Man

Kivers

L
ISA
C
OFFMAN

In Envy of Migration

Maps

About the Pelvis

Tick

A
MY
T
IPTON
C
ORTNER

The Hillbilly Vampire

The Vampire Ethnographer

No Minority

L
OU
V.P. C
RABTREE

Homer-Snake, from
Sweet Hollow

Sister

Sports Widow

O
LIVE
T
ILFORD
D
ARGAN
[F
IELDING
B
URKE
]

from
Call Home the Heart

D
ORIS
D
AVENPORT

Country

for Dr. Josefina Garcia & the “Tissue Committee”

zora neale

R
EBECCA
H
ARDING
D
AVIS

from
Life in the Iron Mills

A
NN
D
EAGON

Giving the Sun

The Hole

Twins

Poetics South

In a Time of Drought

Broadside

A
NGELYN
D
E
B
ORD

from
Praise House

A
NNIE
D
ILLARD

from
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

H
ILDA
D
OWNER

This is what history is

A woman is segmented as an ant

Every open space fills with sky

M
URIEL
M
ILLER
D
RESSLER

Appalachia

Elegy For Jody

W
ILL
A
LLEN
D
ROMGOOLE

from Fiddling His Way to Fame,
The Heart of Old Hickory

W
ILMA
D
YKEMAN

from
Return the Innocent Earth

from
The French Broad

S
ARAH
B
ARNWELL
E
LLIOTT

from
The Durket Sperret

S
IDNEY
S
AYLOR
F
ARR

from
More than Moonshine

Granny Brock

Mountains Fill Up the Night

Appalachia, Where are your Hills?

N
IKKY
F
INNEY

from Queen Ida's Hair-Doing House of Waves,
Heartwood

Irons At Her Feet

L
UCY
F
URMAN

from
Sight to the Blind

D
ENISE
G
IARDINA

from
Storming Heaven

from
The Unquiet Earth

J
ANICE
H
OLT
G
ILES

from
Hannah Fowler

N
IKKI
G
IOVANNI

Griots, from
Racism 101

Knoxville, Tennessee

Revolutionary Dreams

A Poem Off Center

G
AIL
G
ODWIN

from
A Southern Family

C
ONNIE
J
ORDAN
G
REEN

from
The War at Home

V
IRGINIA
H
AMILTON

from
M. C. Higgins the Great

P
AULETTA
H
ANSEL

Writing Lessons (I.)

She

Writing Lessons (II.)

To her mother, lying in state

C
ORRA
H
ARRIS

from
A Circuit Rider's Wife

M
ILDRED
H
AUN

from The Hawk's Done Gone

E
LLESA
C
LAY
H
IGH

from
Past Titan Rock

M
ARY
B
OZEMAN
H
ODGES

Ms. Ida Mae, from
Tough Customers and Other Stories

G
LORIA
H
OUSTON

from
My Great-Aunt Arizona

L
EE
H
OWARD

Momma's Letter

The Last Unmined Vein

M
ARY
J
OHNSTON

from
The Long Roll

M
ARY
H
ARRIS
“M
OTHER
” J
ONES

from
The Autobiography of Mother Jones

J
ANE
W
ILSON
J
OYCE

Life and Art in East Tennessee

Hooked Album Quilt, 1870

M
AY
J
USTUS

Weather Rhymes

E
DITH
S
UMMERS
K
ELLEY

from
Weeds

L
EATHA
K
ENDRICK

from No Place Like Home

The Familiar Level

Refusing a Spinal

B
ARBARA
K
INGSOLVER

from
The Bean Trees

from
Prodigal Summer

L
ISA
K
OGER

from Extended Learning,
Farlanburg Stories

C
ATHERINE
L
ANDIS

from
Some Days There's Pie

L
ILY
M
AY
L
EDFORD

from
Coon Creek Girl

G
RACE
L
UMPKIN

from
To Make My Bread

G
EORGE
E
LLA
L
YON

from
With A Hammer for My Heart

Where I'm From

Rings

Salvation

Growing Light

L
INDA
P
ARSONS
M
ARION

Mulberries

To My Daughter Going Off to College

Welcome to the Other Side

Good Luck Charm

C
ATHERINE
M
ARSHALL

from
Christy

B
ELINDA
A
NN
M
ASON

The Gifts of the Spirit

K
ATHY
L. M
AY

Rain

Saved

Ascension

T
RUDA
W
ILLIAMS
M
C
C
OY

from
The McCoys

S
HARYN
M
C
C
RUMB

from
The Songcatcher

J
EANNE
M
C
D
ONALD

from Up the Hill toward Home

K
AREN
S
ALYER
M
C
E
LMURRAY

from
Mother of the Disappeared: An Appalachian Birth Mother's Journey

L
LEWELLYN
M
C
K
ERNAN

Many Waters

For My Grandmother Who Knows How

The Hollow

Mother Milking

Music

I
RENE
M
C
K
INNEY

Twilight in West Virginia: Six O'Clock Mine Report

Deep Mining

Sunday Morning, 1950

The Only Portrait of Emily Dickinson

Visiting My Gravesite: Talbott Churchyard, West Virginia

L
OUISE
M
C
N
EILL

The Other Woman

Aubade to Fear (Heavy with Child)

Hill Daughter

Arrow Grasses by Greenbrier River

from
The Milkweed Ladies

J
ANE
M
ERCHANT

Lanterns and Lamps

First Plowing in the Hills

E
MMA
B
ELL
M
ILES

from
The Spirit of the Mountains

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