"Wild Muse: Ozark Nature Poetry" is another project edited by Phillip Douglas Howerton, an apparently indefatigable professor of English at Missouri State University, whose useful and surprising anthology, "The Literature of the Ozarks," was published by the University of Arkansas Press in 2019.
For a long time, the voices dominating narratives about what it is like to live in Appalachia have been conservative and white. While many Appalachian.
Photo: Paola Corso Steps leading up to the Rachel Carson Bridge, connecting Downtown Pittsburgh to the North Side
Every time Paola Corso’s grandmother saw a church, she made the sign of the cross. Corso adopted her grandmother’s tradition when she crossed a bridge over one of the three rivers in Pittsburgh: “In the name of the Allegheny, the Monongahela, and the holy Ohio, amen, became Corso’s personal prayer. In
Vertical Bridges (Six Gallery Press), a new collection of poems and photos, Corso brings a similar reverence to one of Pittsburgh’s hidden landmarks: the steps that connect city neighborhoods.