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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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    8 DAYS AFTER 9-11: At a Buddhist Retreat in the West Virginia Hills

    September 11, 2020 /

    "First, I'd like to answer this question. What should we do? We should send some kind of force and capture these people. And put them in jail for life — never release them! That is a very compassionate act! Compassionate toward all other beings and for themselves.” He pauses.“That is not an unkind thing to do."

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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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    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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    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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    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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    HAPPY MOONSHINE DAY |Part 2: “The Plum”

    June 5, 2020 /

    We call it The Plum. It’s the prettiest moonshine we make. The shine is made from my PawPaw’s PawPaw’s recipe in a copper still just like it was a hundred years ago. In each jar, we put 13 sweet plums from the trees my great-aunt planted after the ’37 flood...

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    READINGS | COVID-19, Day 77: Yes, I’m Waiting.

    May 30, 2020 /

    "We are front porch people, but I have to make do with a flat section of mulch and an oversized Adirondack chair the ex-husband made me when he was still a husband."

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