Dirt Songs provides a uniquely intimate look at landscape and family generated from within Appalachia, recognizing that one story cannot accurately represent a region or its people.
Category: Poetry

Outside the Frame by Catherine Pritchard Childress
“These poems disrupt, they trouble patriarchal waters, and they ask two things: What really happens to women who dissent, and are you strong enough to wonder?”

The Sins of Sweet Mortality by Marilyn Fox & Nancye McCrary
In this collaborative project, Fox and McCrary combine poetry with painting — juxtaposing voice and image — to create literary and visual work that is impassioned and thought-provoking.

Exquisite by September by Shayla Hawkins
By turns humorous, melancholy, and sensual, this collection is a poetic museum through which Hawkins shares glimpses into different facets or “galleries” of her being.

The Cutleaf Reader: Vol. Two
A print anthology of the second year of Cutleaf, our literary journal of short stories, essays, and poetry.

Intimacies in Borrowed Light by Darius Stewart
“The central, intertwining themes of this book are announced right in the title—intimacy and light.”

The Cutleaf Reader: Vol. 1
An anthology of the inaugural year of Cutleaf, our literary journal of short stories, essays, and poetry, is now available in print form.

Crow Funeral by Kate Hanson Foster
“From gestation through birth and the accrual of days spent mothering, Hanson Foster circles the challenges and hard truths all mothers must face.”