Untelling
ISSUE 3 | SUMMER 2025
Featuring 19 poets, 7 prose writers, and 16 artists
Untelling 4
From the Editor 8
From the Archive 89
From the Still Library 91
Artist Bios 94
POETRY
First Home 10
Lie Ford
Three Sisters 12
Silas House
of plenty of light 15
Matt Farley
Self-Portrait as Human Cruelty 21
Jennifer Browne
Miss Lucy Speed 22
LuLu Johnson
Manual on How to Cry 24
Samantha Ratcliffe
Porches, Early 1980s 25
Silas House
girl on a wire 31
Pam Campbell
In a Period of Absence: She Dreams of Speleothems 32
Jennifer Browne
[Our table is set] 35
Ariana Alvarado
Quilt Chest 36
Danita Dodson
Upkeeping 42
Danita Dodson
Shuck Wight New Year 46
Samantha Ratcliffe
Somewhere, Someone Must Know the Ending,… 49
Anthony Frame
When I say I wasn’t raised right, I mean 56
Lie Ford
Moon in Libra 59
Sarah Sandman
Self-Portrait as Revision 61
Jennifer Browne
Speaking to the Dead 62
Connie Jordan Green
Blood Rooted 64
Pam Campbell
That Deep 66
Misty Skaggs
My Mother, Orphaned at 10 68
Silas House
Wednesdays at the Bonham Exchange, Late 80s 70
LuLu Johnson
Frankie Day 76
Misty Skaggs
The Floor is Lava 79
McKenna Revel
New Love 80
Christopher McCurry
My Grandmother Tells it All 81
Connie Jordan Green
Appalachian Gothic 86
Barbara Marie Minney
I Bought a Mountain 91
Willie Carver
What He Carried 93
Jane Hicks
PROSE
Untelling 4
Neema Avashia
Doc Dollar 17
Meredith McCarroll
The Fox 27
Michael Henson
Goodwin Weavers 38
Morgan Gilbert
AppalAsian Enough 52
Lisa Kwong
Silence is Appreciated 72
Jennifer McGaha
World of Waters 82
Robert Gipe
PHOTOGRAPHY & ART
A Perfectly Good Dog Cover
Matthew Sidney Parsons
Frost 5
Jared Hamilton
Stop Motion Poetry 9
Tyler Barrett
Dahlia 11
Sam Stapleton
Fading Summer 13
Autumn Fretz
The Ice Storm 14
Annabel Noe Day
Heard They’s a Storm A’Comin’ 21
Amber Wyzomirski
Survivor 23
Annabel Noe Day
Kitten Caboodle 26
Randi Ward
Bed of Nails 31
Judy Jenks
Whispers of the Farm 34
Ashley Himes
i wish that i was more fragile 37
JRS
Goodwin Weavers 38
Morgan Gilbert
A Part of this Place 39
Morgan Gilbert
The Three Fates 40
Morgan Gilbert
Lean Times 43
Randi Ward
US Steel, Rankin PA 44
Jody DiPerna
Grown with Care 47
Matthew Sidney Parsons
Space Disease 48
Jared Hamilton
Playground, Erie, CO 57
Kevin Slick
My Old Kentucky Home 58
Ashley Himes
i’m so far away from nature 60
JRS
Merry Mushroom 63
Kasey Morris-Floyd
Fate 65
Judy Jenks
Dear Woman, Why Are You Crying? 67
Amber Wyzomirski
Black-Eyed Susan 69
Sam Stapleton
Fields of Home 71
Kevin Slick
Adorned 77
Tyler Barrett
Lost in Line Breaks 78
Tyler Barrett
Hibiscus 87
Sam Stapleton
Snail 93
Kasey Morris-Floyd
Verde 94
Amy Joe Bourque
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 Matthew Sidney Parsons
MELISSA HELTON
Editor
WILL ANDERSON
Executive Director
JOSH MULLINS
Development & Operations
JUSTIN BROWN
Art Direction & Design
COREY TERRY
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