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Table of Contents |
| Regular Features | |
| This Side of the Mountain | |
| News of the Appalachian Literary Arts | |
| Upcoming Regional Literary Events | George Brosi |
| Contributors to this Issue | |
| Featured Author – Gurney Norman | |
| Gurney Norman | George Brosi |
| Gurney Norman, Kentucky Coal Field Orphan, Is Gurney Stronger than History, or What?-Poetry | James Baker Hall |
| My Conversation with Gurney Norman | Wendell Berry |
| The Ballad of Dan Gibson-Poetry | Gurney Norman |
| The Story of the Story | Ed McClanahan |
| Death in Lexington-Fiction | Gurney Norman |
| Literary Patriarch -Poetry | Frank X Walker |
| The Death of the Double Minded Man | Leah Bayens |
| Quilt Thread-Fiction | Gurney Norman |
| Fiction | |
| Hoot Owl Holler | Scott Loring Sanders |
| Essay | |
| A Hike into Heaven's Hell | Tim Homan |
| Memoir | |
| Summertime Medley | Sidney Saylor Farr |
| Poetry | |
| The Only Good Top | Jenny Galloway Browning |
| A Love Song: The Drawing Knife Speaks to Grandfather | Charles A. Swanson |
| Workman, Workman! | Beth Kennedy |
| Forgetful of Dirt | Joe Rice |
| hog-killing time | doris davenport |
| Miz Jones | doris davenport |
| Lesson in Excitement | doris davenport |
| For Sale | Pia Taavila |
| What with Johnny Cash Dying | E.D. Pendarvis |
| when i first moved to Tennessee | J.M.White |
| Rooted Things | Mary Ann Taylor-Hall |
| Appalachian Books: Review Essay | |
| Before the Appalachian Literary Renaissance, There Was Davis Grubbs' | Thomas E. Douglass |
| New Appalachian Books: Reviews | |
| Don West's No Lonesome Road: Selected Prose and Poems | Chris Green |
| New Appalachian Books | |
| Write-ups | George Brosi with Beth Overbee |
| Photography for This Issue - James Baker hall | |
| Bud | Front Cover |
| Gurney Norman at Mailbox | Inside Front Cover |
| The Four Stegner Fellows - Ed McClanahan, Wendell Berry, James Baker Hall, and Gurney Norman |
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| Gurney Norman | |
| James Baker Hall |
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| Wendell Berry and Gurney Norman | |
| Wendell Berry, 2004 | |
| Frank X Walker, 2002 | |
| Gurney Norman with Mug | |
| Gurney Norman, 1960 | |
| Thorns | |
| Dead Tree | |
| Calves | |
| Gurney Norman, Mid-1970s | |
| Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, 1999 | |
| Pasture | |
The Poem, "Gurney Norman, Kentucky CoalField Orphan, Is Gurney Stronger That History, or What?" by James Baker Hall, Which appears on page 16 of this issue, previously appeared in "The Total Light Process: New and Selected Poems" by James Baker Hall, published in 2004 by the University Press of Kentucky. Reprinted by permission of the author.
The Poem, "The Ballad of Dan Gibson" by Gurney Norman, which appears on page 23 of this issue, previously appeared in "Voices from the Mountains" by Guy and Candie Carawan, published by Albert A. Knopf in 1975 and reprinted in paperback by the University of Illinois Press in 1982 and again by the University of Georgia Press in 1996. Reprinted by permission of the author.
The poem, "Literary Patriarch for Gurney Norman" by Frank X Walker, which appears on page 30 of this issue, previously appeared in "Limestone," 2002, and was reprinted in "Kudzu," 2006. Reprinted by permission of the author.