Submissions and Et Cetera

I hope the long silence doesn’t prevent you all from submitting. I’m back on the stick now and looking for material, and all previous submissions have been cleared (thank you very much for sending).

I’m off now to catch up at the Night Train.

Appalachia's Agony

Gakked from Jim Tomlinson on Facebook. Let’s hope President Obama notices.

The longstanding disgrace of mountaintop mining is now squarely in President Obama’s hands.

A recent court decision has given the green light to as many as 90 mountaintop mining projects in Appalachia’s coal-rich hills, which in turn could destroy more than 200 miles of valleys [...]

Get On the Bus

The Affrilachian poets are off on another bus tour of Central and Southern Appalachia, bringing poems everywhere they go. Too bad they’re not making the trip farther into Yankee territory.

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