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From the Editors:
Welcome back to The Nantahala Review. Due to a variety professional obligations for all four of
us
editors who are full-time faculty members, we have not been able to finalize
this issue for a while. We have
a very good publication here for 2007, full of a variety of accomplished
artists connected to the regionand new multimedia features.
We appreciate the patience of our audience. We will publish only a polished, high-quality journal. Now it is ready for you to reflect upon
and enjoy. We believe our
online
format offers a rich opportunity to get to know some of the artists.
We would especially like to thank Affrilachian
writer Crystal Wilkinson who has contributed much to this issue, including an
excerpt from her novel Opulence, an interview with Morris Grubb previously published in Appalachian
Heritage, and her work
inviting several important poets to submit to this issue. We greatly appreciate Crystal’s work on
this issue and her commitment to fostering the literature of this region in all
of its diversity.
Our featured artist/photographer for this issue is Ken
Hassell, Chair of the Art Department at Elon College. His A Life of Coal is a long-range documentary photography project examining
coal mining and Appalachian culture in southwestern Virginia, West Virginia and
eastern Kentucky.
Please email us with any questions and comments.
That lyf so short, that craft so long to lerne
Th'assay so hard, so sharpe the conquerynge.
--
Chaucer
Rob
Merritt, Bluefield College
Joe
Champagne, Virginia Intermont College
Mark
Roberts, Virginia Intermont College
Cy Dillon,
Ferrum College
