by TNSF | May 26, 2021 | Reviews
A Twilight Reel: Stories by Michael Amos Cody ISBN: 978-1-942016-66-3 Pisgah Press, May 25, 2021 312 pages, $17.95 Michael Cody’s collection of twelve linked stories, A Twilight Reel, follows the pattern of Edmund Spenser’s Shepheardes Calendar (1579), with each story...
by TNSF | May 8, 2019 | Best of Volume 2, Poems, Vol. 2, Issue 13
We heard that the war was coming. We heard we were the victims & we were the perpetrators & we were the problem & we were the future. We heard a television man was coming with his camera & his vest & his eyes squinting against a hatless skyglare....
by TNSF | Feb 27, 2019 | Poems, Vol. 2, Issue 8
“Lessons in Mining” “Redneck referred to the red bandanas that West Virginia miners wore around their necks.” –Chuck Keeney, WV Mine Wars Museum. In my Appalachian middle school, the teachers transformed classrooms into a coal mining town. The...
by TNSF | Aug 29, 2018 | Photography, Vol. 1, Issue 42
Clinchco This shot was taken right outside the Binns-Counts Community Center in Clinchco, VA. October in Appalachia is overwhelmingly vibrant, and along many roadside rivers like this one, the color spectrum is laid out over the bank, forest, and sky. (Click on the...