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  • 5 Questions,  Books,  Stories

    5 QUESTIONS: Going deep & writing wild in West Virginia

    January 17, 2025 /

    A Q-and-A conversation with Laura Jackson on her book "DEEP & WILD," about mountains, opossums, coyotes, writing, ramps, and that confounding state of mind known as West Virginia

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    EXCERPTS | From ‘DEEP & WILD’ by Laura Jackson

    January 17, 2025 /

    Some excerpts from Laura Jackson's debut essay collection, 'DEEP & WILD: On Mountains, Opossums, & Finding Your Way in West Virginia.' SEE RELATED '5 QUESTIONS' with the author

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    5 QUESTIONS: Susan Werner on going long, Texas tuneage, and the art of the song

    April 2, 2024 /

    For folks who know the upper echelons of songwriting, 'No Depression' magazine once awarded Susan Werner some high praise indeed: “When it comes to crafting a song, Ms. Werner’s only peers are Jimmy Webb and Paul Simon.” Study up on her songcraft in our '5 Questions' with her in advance of an April 6, 2024 show in Charleston. W.Va.

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    5 QUESTIONS: With U.S. Beat Poet Laureate & WV native John Burroughs

    September 1, 2022 /

    John Burroughs, a native of Richwood WV, had his life saved by poetry back up in the Appalachian hills. Now, he is the National Beat Poet Laureate and a national touring and performing poet.

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    5 QUESTIONS: From West Virginia to the San Francisco Bay and beyond

    September 1, 2022 /

    D. Scot Miller was a bright student from Dunbar, West Virginia, considered transgressive in class as he had a vision of how things might be better. What happened next bounced him to the other side of the country and a lively career as a writer, poet, thinker, and creator of The Afrosurreal Manifesto.

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    5 QUESTIONS: Spencer Elliott on the Art of the Guitar

    May 3, 2022 /

    Spencer Elliott's instrumental guitar persona is two-fold: as a genre-defying solo performer and in the burning-down-the-house trio SE3. Like many stellar players, he has kept his day job in West Virginia's capital, even as his international fanbase grows.

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    5 QUESTIONS: Bhante G on meditating via ZOOM, daily mindfulness and facing death

    April 17, 2021 /

    It is perhaps not as well known as it should be that a much-beloved, 93-year-old global figure in Buddhism has called West Virginia home since 1985. We check in with him on ZOOM meditating and more.

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    POETICS: The Art of Being West Virginia’s Poet Laureate

    March 18, 2021 /

    We sit down — digitally — with longtime West Virginia poet laureate Marc Harshman and quiz him about his "Dispatch From the Mountain State" in the NYTimes and the obligation of a poetry to be the sort of "political being" described by W.H. Auden.

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    BE THE CHANGE: The Tale of A Song and Its Two Songwriters

    March 4, 2021 /

    The COVERSTORY for our March 2021 edition is a twofer: Watch the debut of an original WestVirginiaVille music video of "Be the Change" — and hear songwriters Ron Sowell and Jon Wikstrom talk about the roots of their song and their long songwriting comradeship.

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    5 QUESTIONS: John W. Miller on taking a deep dive into a small West Virginia town

    December 15, 2020 /

    Once a thriving West Virginia town whose region produced everything from cigars to classic toys like Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots, Moundsville—population 8,400 souls—looks to figure out where it goes from here. The new 2020 documentary "Moundsville" considers the town's past and present—and its future possibilities.

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    5 QUESTIONS: Kyle Vass on street-level addiction reporting & telling audio stories

    December 6, 2020 /

    Multimedia journalist Kyle Vass on hitting the streets of Charleston WV to report on the addiction crisis and the art of audio storytelling.

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    5 QUESTIONS: West Virginia native tracks a journey into “Giving Up Whiteness”

    October 31, 2020 /

    West Virginia native Jeff James has written a book with one of 2020's most provocative titles: "GIVING UP WHITENESS." Elizabeth Gaucher takes a deep dive into the genesis and themes of the book in "5 Questions" with the author.

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    5 QUESTIONS: When Life Hands You Quarantine, You Make a Web Series Out of It

    July 23, 2020 /

    Curren Sheldon and Tijah Bumgarner are the wizards behind the extremely entertaining web series, "Quarantine Life," which asks—and answers—the question: What do two mondo-talented West Virginia filmmakers do during a global pandemic that has locked down the usual creative projects into which they had been pouring their life force?

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    MARIE MANILLA | Part 1: Driving By Her Own Headlights

    July 11, 2020 /

    Huntington WV native Marie Manilla is an award-winning fiction and non-fiction author. In a "5 Questions" interview, she talks about the highs and lows of writing; the 'snotty literati,' who use labels to belittle writers; and the novel she scrapped after hearing pre-publication reactions by African American and transgender sensitivity readers.

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    DON WEST | Part 1: Not An Easy Path

    June 6, 2020 /

    Don West was not a warm and fuzzy person or "a creator of comfort. He was a ceator of action." It could be uncomfortable, but the labor activist and poet left a legacy to be explored in a WVPB documentary that debuts Sunday, June 7, 2020

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    5 QUESTIONS: Colleen Anderson on the Art of the Op-Ed Limerick

    May 28, 2020 /

    Colleen Anderson is a leading light in the Op-Ed Limerick Movement of the Trump Era. We're actually unsure whether anyone else writes Molotov limericks in response to the daily depredations of Trump and his minions and toadies. We had '5 Questions' for her.

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