Appalachian Poets

Conversation with
Kari Gunter-Seymour

The Summer 2021 issue features a tribute to Appalachian Poets. More than 25 million people call Appalachia home, and it’s a region known for its storytelling. The 22 poets in this special section prove that to be the case, writing about family, history, and modern life. The tribute section was so good, we had to stretch the issue to 124 pages to fit it all in.

In the open section, the poems are as strong as ever, featuring reader favorites Francesca Bell and Ted Kooser, along with a number of excellent poets new to Rattle’s pages, writing about everything from sexual desire to cancer, big foot to peeing in the pool, including a long poem from Clemonce Heard on the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre.

	Appalachian Poets
	Roy Bentley	The Death of the Box Turtle
	Ace Boggess	Goodbye for Now
	Hannah Bonner	And When He Told Her It Was Truly …
	Trent Busch	What Used to Be There
	Andrew Lee Butler	Letter to Nordstrom …
	Susan Comninos	Imagining Abraham
	Lewis Crawford	Sometimes the Dream Comes Back to Me
	Prairie Moon Dalton	Grandmother
	Marissa Davis	Katabasis
	donnarkevic	23 Miners Dead at Century Mine
	Mitzi Dorton	On Strike for My Union Daddy …
	Amanda Gaines	There Are Other Things I’d Like to Explain
	Kari Gunter-Seymour	The Whole Shebang Up for Debate
	Raymond Hammond	Lizard Tongues
	Edison Jennings	Cold Spring Morning and the Grade School
	Sean Kelbley	Pipeline Surveyors
	Jeff Daniel Marion	Smoke
	Robert Morgan	Mandolin
	Elaine Fowler Palencia	Capitalism
	Matthew S. Parsons	The Whole Kit
		The Whole Kit II
	Sarah St. Vincent	Grown
	Sarah Wheeler	The Wild
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	Open Poetry
	Francesca Bell	What Small Sound
	Frank Beltrano	Segments of Memory
	Susan Browne	Strawberry
	Wyn Cooper	Smoke
	Bill Glose	Second Opinion
		Sasquatch
	Joseph Goldstein	To Sarah
		Seduction
	Clemonce Heard	Ninety-Nine
	Ted Kooser	Cancer
		Under a Forty-Watt Bulb
	Danusha Laméris	Appointment
	Lance Larsen	Urine Poem
	Samantha Leon	Mapping Desire
	Alison Luterman	Insatiable
	Emily Portillo	Eleven
	Jack Ridl	On Finding a Wren Below Our Bedroom Window
	Rebecca Starks	Paper Birches in Snow
	Iheoma Uzomba	Panorama of a Coloured Race
	Ben Wenzl	About Work the Dancefloor
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	Conversation
	Kari Gunter-Seymour (web)
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	Cover Art
	Margo Lemieux