Kendra Winchester talks to Silas House, the former Poet Laureate of Kentucky.

Things Mentioned

• Read Appalachia Newsletter

Books Mentioned

• Dead Man Blues by S.D. House
• All These Ghosts by Silas House
• Lark Ascending by Silas House
• Southernmost by Silas House
• The Coal Tattoo by Silas House
• Clay’s Quilt by Silas House
• A Parchment of Leaves by Silas House
• The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves
• Raven Black by Ann Cleeves
• A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale
• Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor
• The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis
• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

Guest Info

Silas House | Website | Instagram

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In the latest installment of our minisode series, Poetry Corner, Kendra Winchester is joined by upfromsumdirt.

Things Mentioned

• Read Appalachia Newsletter

Books Mentioned

• The Second Stop Is Jupiter: Poems by upfromsumdirt
• The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife by upfromsumdirt
• Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
• None But the Righteous by Chantal James
• The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories by Bruno Schulz
• The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin
• The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
• African Myths of Origin edited by Stephen Belcher
• Unravel: Poems by Tolu Oloruntoba

Guest Info

upfromsumdirt, aka Ronald W. Davis, is an autodidactic poet, visual artist, and designer from Louisville, Kentucky. He is the illustrator of A Is for Affrilachia and the NAACP Image Award–winning Perfect Black. He is the author of many chapbooks and the full-length collections The Second Stop Is Jupiter: Poems, To Emit Teal, and Deifying a Total Darkness.

Website | Instagram | Bluesky

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In the latest installment of our minisode series, Poetry Corner, Kendra Winchester is joined by Denton Loving.

Things Mentioned

• Read Appalachia Newsletter

Books Mentioned

• Tamp by Denton Loving
• Feller by Denton loving
• Nameless As the Minnows by Connie Jordan Green
• Lullaby For the Grieving by Ashley M. Jones
• Peasant by Annie Woodford
• Pineville Trace by Wes Blake
• The Art of Lost Souls by Melanie K. Hutsell
• Cipher: Decoding by Ancestor’s Scandalous Secret Diaries by Jeremy B. Jones

Guest Info

Denton Loving is the author of three poetry collections: Feller, Crimes Against Birds, and Tamp which was a finalist for the Weatherford Award and received the inaugural Tennessee Book Award for Poetry. He is a co-founder and editor at EastOver Press and its literary journal Cutleaf. His fiction, poetry, essays and reviews have appeared in numerous publications including The Kenyon Review, Iron Horse Literary Review and Ecotone.

Website | Instagram

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