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    READINGS: “THE OUTHOUSE: When you have to go, you have to go”

    October 29, 2022 /

    Over there sits a narrow, tiny, upright building of loosely-fitted, weathered boards painted Theravada Buddhist orange. It has a peaked roof covered with black shingles. It is a monk’s outhouse in the Appalachian hills. I know who built it. He’s a friend of mine.

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  • Readings,  Stories

    SHORT/STORY: “Salena”

    July 1, 2022 /

    Salena had never had anything beautiful, certainly never anything perfect. The nuns wrapped her in perfect clean blankets. She had a little cotton shirt, perfect. They asked for the name of the father. She said, “I don’t know.” They entered ‘Unknown’ into the blank box.

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  • Readings,  Stories

    READINGS: “Montani Semper … Snapshots from an Appalachian Family Album”

    July 1, 2022 /

    Take a read on a WestVirginiaVille experiment to publish longish excerpts from worthy, well-written books with a West Virginia connection, like "Montani Semper ..."

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  • Essay,  Readings,  Stories

    The sink as a refuge of sanctuary & solidarity

    December 10, 2021 /

    'I am at one with a long line of the faithful, monks of Ireland, or Tibet, or France, silently preparing or cleaning up from the day’s meals, mindfully caring for community, or in readiness to offer hospitality.

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  • Essay,  Readings,  Stories

    Teach your children well — but not what to think

    December 10, 2021 /

    'Your children are not your property. They belong to the future. You cannot make them duplicates of your opinions, values and habits. And if you did, life would soon break them, teaching them that the ideas and understandings of the last generation do not serve the next.'

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  • Readings,  Stories

    What we are reading — or what is reading us

    December 10, 2021 /

    A survey of paragraphs, images, articles and links that pinged our radar and got us thinking.

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  • Readings,  Stories

    Storytelling from campfires to computers

    December 10, 2021 /

    Here's a compendium of encouragements, links, quotes, and brain downloads from a lifetime of writing stories. To be continued ...

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  • Nature,  Poetics,  Readings

    READINGS: Three from “Corona Time Capsule”

    September 10, 2021 /

    'Feed Them on Peaches,' 'Grass Fire,' and '¡Ya Basta!' — three excerpts of poetry and prose from poet James Cochran's forthcoming book "Corona Time Capsule."

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  • Essay,  Readings,  Stories

    MEMOIR: ‘The Garden and the Grief’ by Connie Kinsey

    August 4, 2021 /

    Gardens usually signify growth and the boundless, restorative invention of Nature. Yet what happens when they fall into tangles as life's misfortunes overwhelm and distract us from turning their soil? Connie Kinsey's short memoir on on the dance between her garden and her grief.

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    SHORT/STORY: ‘I can see clearly now’

    May 5, 2021 /

    What happened one day out near the Beautiful River while I was pondering whether my father's was right when he got angry and said: 'People are no damn good!'

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    READINGS | Looking Back on a Hindu Hillbilly Upbringing

    November 10, 2020 /

    "There is the constant question asked every time our brown-skinned family attends a gathering of White West Virginians. "Have you been saved?" Neema Avashia looks back on growing up "a motley crew, this band of Hindus, gathering once a month to pray in southern West Virginia in the mid 1980s."

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    CHARACTERS | The “Spark-eyed” Vision of WV Poet Bob Snyder

    October 20, 2020 /

    Influential West Virginia-native poet Bob Snyder died in 1995. But a new collection of his poetry exemplifies why, says a fellow poet: "Every West Virginia writer should know Bob. At least know about him. You may not ever get the whole story, but this book will help you understand some of it."

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    READINGS | “One Cup At a Time: A National Coffee Day Memoir”

    September 29, 2020 /

    Coffee has punctuated my life as exclamation points, commas, periods, and missed periods. Coffee has born witness to the great events and the tiny ones, the happy and the sad. The momentous and the mundane.

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    READINGS | Two by Kiley Lee

    August 9, 2020 /

    Twitter can be a whirlwind of woe. It can also be a place of discovery, of encountering creatives working in West Virginia whose work is worth checking out and lifting up. Here are two poems and two photographs by Kiley Lee, of Paden City WV.

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    READINGS |’The Question That Stripped My Daddy of His Manhood’

    August 7, 2020 /

    "I felt his shame and embarrassment. It was not my intent to shame or embarrass my daddy. But he heard the anger and reprimand in my voice. You know. Don’t-let-anyone-take-advantage-of-you kind of reprimand ..."

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    READINGS | “Please Take Care of My Friend: Heart Advice from a Stranger”

    July 27, 2020 /

    "Don't drive if you're upset. Don't beat yourself up. Know you're lovable and inspire others even if you're not feeling it. Meditate. Sing. Even badly. It changes the brain right away "

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  • Readings,  Stories

    MARIE MANILLA | Part 2: “Madness”

    July 11, 2020 /

    "Bev screamed: “It’s Joey!” The sweet boy so many girls loved. Did he even drive a white car? I think we all knew it wasn’t Joey asphyxiated inside that vehicle, but it could have been him. It could have, and it felt good to whip ourselves into a frenzy—yet another asylum-able offense."

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  • Nature,  Photos/Video,  Poetics,  Readings,  Stories

    READINGS | A Stroll Deep into a West Virginia Marsh

    July 10, 2020 /

    If it’s true we are mother, father, sister, brother, related all to all, maybe that's one way to comprehend and befriend the ten thousand things. The hundreds of voices, cries, and songs rising from this manifold marsh.

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  • Readings,  Stories

    VIDEO READINGS| “Terracotta Tile,” a prompted tale by Connie Kinsey

    July 6, 2020 /

    "He was rage and she was ennui.  She picked up her glass and took a sip. The wine tasted bitter.  She couldn’t remember when he had last been happy. He stood in front of her.  Silent, but radiating a need to speak. “What?” she said softly.

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    READINGS | Ruminations of a Coal Miner’s Ex-wife

    June 25, 2020 /

    "Living here in Southern WV is very much like not being able to see the forest for the trees. So much of what went wrong in my marriage went wrong because my then-husband was being exploited and made to think that he had the good life. No—he was made to think he had the best life. He couldn’t say no."

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