Switchback: poems from a yearlong writing challenge Narrated by a young boy

Narrated by a young boy (a cousin of the narrator of Still's classic novel River of Earth)

Many areas of Appalachian Kentucky are “food deserts

listening to country and folk music and letting it live within her

The Morning After

" James Still has won the appreciation of audiences in Appalachia and beyond for more than seventy years

Switchback: poems from a yearlong writing challenge Narrated by a young boyPRE ORDER, books will be shipped once available. An anthology born out of the 2025 Stafford Challenge at Hindman Settlement School, a year long commitment to writing a poem a day in community with other writers. 88 writers participated through HSS, which included daily poems, prompts, and monthly virtual gatherings. This anthology is a tangible celebration of all the creation that happened.