Local Poets Celebrate National Poetry Month; Rita Quillen Recalls Day She Discovered Appalachian Poetry
I can vividly recall the day I discovered Appalachian poetry. I had worked up the nerve to show some poems to my English teacher at Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, Mr. Van Rose, after he'd bragged on my writing abiliti
Youth Spotlight: Thomas Cantrell
East Tennessee State University senior Thomas Cantrell enjoys studying Japanese. He came upon the works of Ozaki Hosai, and chose the poet as the subject of his honors thesis, evaluating the impact of Buddhism on Hosai's works and translating his p
POETRY by Jane Hicks
Bluegrass Festival, Slagle's Pasture, Tennessee
After midnight, spotlights dimmed,
the hardy play until dawn.
POETRY by Felicia Mitchell
In My Dreams
I never get to be the mermaid.
POETRY by Delilah O'Haynes
Blizzards
Raging blind out into white ...
POETRY by Neva Bryan
Appalachia, Man: Can You Dig It?
Turn a furrow and find ...
POETRY by Rees Shearer
Plowing New Land
Tear open to a weeping sky ...
POETRY by Gretchen McCroskey
Communion Wine
Daddy and Uncle Campbell broke
the snow, walking the mile ...
POETRY by Benjamin Dugger
After the Sickle
Furrows forsaken, spent, stripped ...
POETRY by Warren Meredith Harris
Second Thoughts on the Creeper Trail
Washington County, Va.
Between Green Spring Road and Watauga, I ran
onto one of the trestles. A thick loop of copperhead ...
POETRY by David Winship
Dogwood Winter, '07
On Good Friday,
the snow flurried and laid overnight,
blanketing the springtime blooms ...
POETRY by Henry McCarthy
The Edge
Mornings I walk by my neighbor's house...
POETRY by Lena Cantrell McNicholas
Reunion 2004
The author was President of the Class '54
In Memory and Honor of You,
My Classmates, at Pound High School
As we meet again
50 years after ...
POETRY by Samuel Miller, M.D.
Query
Where is the person who was known as me?
Arts All Around: A Day Without Poetry
In my early years as an educator, a familiar commercial included the slogan "A day without orange juice is like a day without sunshine.
Cara Harker Lives a Dance Life
A somber tune fills the dimly lit theatre. The stage is bare but for a single table. No curtains, no overhead lights and no people — except for one couple tangoing across the stage, locked in each other's arms. The woman wears gray sweatpants and a
Tribute to Women Honors Three in the Arts Community
Every year, the YWCA sets aside a night to honor exceptional women across the nation.
Bristol Professor's Work Selected for Rosen Sculpture Exhibition
A Virginia Intermont College professor has won the honor of having work accepted into 22nd Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition & Exhibition, a national juried competition.
Abingdon High Graduate Now Working on FX Show 'The Riches'
Colette Burson called it her "shout out to Abingdon." Last year, this 1988 graduate of Abingdon High School got a chance to fly solo as writer of an episode of the FX series called "The Riches." In the installment called "Cinde
Theatre Is Conduit For Students' Message
Mountain Youth Drama cast members are turning peer pressure into a positive influence through the power of theater.
VI Grad Wins Pulitzer for Photography
Preston Gannaway, who won a Pulitzer Prize for feature photography on Monday (April 7), studied her craft at Virginia Intermont College and started her career at a Southwest Virginia newspaper.
Poet Says He Looks For Beauty In Ordinary Objects
Ted Kooser can describe the rainbow in a pan of dishwater and the diving porpoise in a notebook's spiral binding.
'Freedom' Named Finalist in 2008 Film Competition
Freedom, the independent film shot and produced in Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee last year, has been named one of three finalists in the 2008 Virginia Film Competition.
Watauga Valley Art League Completes Another Barn 'Quilt Square'
The painted 4' x 4' quilt square "Lone Star" was recently finished by some Watauga Valley Art League members.
Johnson City Ballet Academy Student Places in Top 12
Gwynn Root, 16-year-old from Jonesborough placed in the top 12 for the second year in a row in the senior classical ballet division of the semi-finals of the Youth America Grand Prix Ballet Competition. This year's event took place on Feb 22 at Converse C
Modern Movement Spiced with Appalachian Flavor Accents ETSU Dance Performance
Dancers moved to bongos, banjos and south-of-the-border beats, Feb. 22-24, during the East Tennessee State University dance program's first performance since it joined the Department of Communication's Division of Theatre in January.
JCAAC Gala Better Than Ever
Arts lovers met at the Carnegie Hotel Grand Soldiers Ballroom Sunday [March 16, 2008] to sample food from the gourmet buffet, listen to music and look at art during the Johnson City Area Arts Council's "Evening of Miniature Masterpieces."
Believe In Bristol & BCMA Unveil Kiosk in Downtown Bristol
On April 10, Believe in Bristol and the Birthplace of Country Music Alliance officially unveiled a new Kiosk on-site at Bristol's Downtown Center at the Country Music Mural.
The Birthplace of Country Music Alliance announced that it had reached an early fundraising milestone in its capital campaign, meeting a $100,000 local challenge by the J. Henry Kegley Foundation.