Untelling

ISSUE 1 | SUMMER 2024

Featuring 28 poets, 6 prose writers, and 14 artists

This issue features those who have long been involved in the Hindman writing community and those who are brand new. There are several folks included who this is their first publication credit, all the way to familiar and well-established creators like West Virginia Poet Laureate Marc Harshman and local artist of “No Hate in My Holler” fame Lacy Hale.
 
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CONTAINED WITHIN

Untelling   5
From the Editor   8
From the Archive   102
From the Still Library   104
Artist Bios   108

POETRY

Memory/Book   11 
  Pauletta Hansel

Granny’s Kitchen, 1970s   12
  Chrissie Anderson Peters

Holding Fast   13
  Jessica Manack

The Hunting Grounds   16
  Timothy Dodd

Reader   18
  James Owens

After the Pandemic   28 
  James Engelhardt

It Continues   30
  Patsy Kisner

Let the Wheel Turn   31 
  Barb McCullough

Stealth   32 
  Linda Parsons

Self-Portrait as My 10th Great Grandmother’s Will   34 
  Pauletta Hansel

Coal   36 
  James Owens

Sealess   37
  Jessica Cory

Float Off   39
  Misty Skaggs

The Right to Ruin   40
  Jessica Manack

Catalogue   42 
  Marianne Worthington

Sixth Grade Seventy Years Ago   44 
  Parks Lanier

The Rhythm Took Root   46 
  Tracy Staley

Triplets   48
  Roberta Schultz

I Hope That It Snows   49
  Andrew Preston

Holler Timing   52 
  Samantha Ratcliffe

The Viewing   54 
  Tina Parker

Driving the West Virginia I-77 on an Early November Morning   59 
  Megan Hutchinson

Mother Had Two Boys   62
  Marc Harshman

After the Hunter’s Moon   71
  James Engelhardt

To the Deer Skull Hanging in My Backyard   73
  Megan Hutchinson

Going Home   74
  Tina Parker

ESOL   76
  Samuel Prestridge

Uncertainty   78
  Ace Boggess

Eve   79 
  Kristi Stephens Walker

Don’t Look Back   80
  Amy Lee Ann Richardson

Evolution of a Praise Kink   82 
  Brandon Sun Eagle Jent

Blue Night at the Nursing Home   85
  Marianne Worthington

Holy Palaver   92
  Timothy Dodd

Sometimes what lasts is a fragile thing   95
  Cathy Cultice Lentes

Family Plot   96
  Ashley Massey

Walnut   97
  Andrew Preston

On watching my son lay in five inches of snow on a nineteen degree day in January   98
  Amy Le Ann Richardson

Taking It All on Faith   100
  Marc Harshman

I Wanted to Write a Poem   105 
  Marianne Worthington

Appalachian Wilderness: Our Literary Heritage   107 
  Jim Minick

PROSE

How to say your own name   14 
  Nikita Perumal

Bridges   20
  Rachel Holbrook

Superstition   25
  Charlotte Bowling Roth

No Kick   55
  Tia Jensen

No Quietness in the Belly   63
  Jamey Temple

Baronland   86
  Hannah Wilson-Black

PHOTOGRAPHY & ART

Fierce   Cover
  Justin Brown

Mamaw’s Quilt   4
  Corey Terry

Twilight Zone   7
  Kelsey Helton

Stories to be Told   9
  Tyler Barrett

Fire   10
  Sheree Combs

Abandoned House   15
  Chris DeMaria

Striations   17
  Tyler Barrett

Vale   19
  Karah Tull

Lucille   24
  Debby Bird

The Path Opens   29
  Justin Brown

A Reckoning   33
  Karah Tull

I Dreamed I Was Rising Up   38
  Lacy Hale

Mulberry   41
  Kelsey Helton

Moonface   43
  Natosha Via

Glory   44
  Karah Tull

Springtime   51
  Sheree Combs

Fragility   52
  Corey Terry

I Leave the Past to Set Me Free   60
  Lacy Hale

Cold Snap   72
  Randi Ward

A gift on a quiet rainy day   75
  Will Anderson

Elemental Center   77
  Tyler Barrett

Window   81
  Rachel Rosolina

Dementia   84
  Austin Thacker

Groundwork IV   93
  Randi Ward

Skeleton   94
  Chris DeMaria

Girandole   99
  Natosha Via

Empty Nest   101
  Debby Bird

Pedestrian Crossing 110
  Kelsey Helton

The views and opinions expressed in this publications are those of the authors and artists and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of Hindman Settlement School or any affiliated individuals or entities.

Cover photography by Justin Brown

MELISSA HELTON
Editor

WILL ANDERSON
Executive Director

JOSH MULLINS
Development & Operations

JUSTIN BROWN
Art Direction & Design

COREY TERRY
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