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Kathie Odom’s “Sabbath”
by Laura Calhoun I first discovered Kathie Odom’s work on Cabell Gallery’s website. Shenandoah was looking for art to feature in our spring issue at the time, so I brought Odom’s website to the attention of our editor, R.T. Smith. … Continue reading
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Tagged Appalachia, Kathie Odom, Nostalgic impressionism, Oil painting, Rural landscape, Sabbath
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Reflections from a Culture-Shocked American
by Arlette Hernandez I had always heard tales about the Promised Land called “college.” Growing up with Cuban immigrant parents, college was little more than a goal I needed to meet so I could earn a degree and break the cycle … Continue reading
Defining Poetry: Anne Sexton’s “Transformations”
by Laurel Myers I must admit before getting into this essay that I had never read a full book of poetry before university. Like my fellow classmate, Hannah Denham, I picked up Leaves of Grass with the intention to read … Continue reading
Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”: American Individualism Then and Now By Hannah Denham
Nineteenth century poet Walt Whitman is heralded as one of the first truly American poets, but for me, he was my first. I’m a little sheepish to admit this, but I discovered Whitman during my middle school days of … Continue reading
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The Madness of Art: Gothicism in my Short Stories
by Caroline Sanders I tend to be unabashedly optimistic and cheerful. I wake up early every weekday morning to do work on my closed-in front porch with my favorite, bright yellow coffee mug in hand that reads: “You Are My … Continue reading
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John Montague: A Memorial Sampler
[This is the second of a pair of posts celebrating the life and work of Irish poet John Montague. The first can be found immediately below this one, and I recommend reading them in sequence.] Like many Americans, I encountered … Continue reading
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John Montague: Bris-Mo-Croi
Last Saturday I had been in the woodlot quartering a shagbark brought down last year because – long assailed, perhaps even “farmed” for beetles, by pileateds – it was riddled with impressive holes. Air cold, wood old and mazed – … Continue reading
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Slipstream: Making the Familiar Strange (Part 2 of 2)
by Dana Schultz A few weeks ago I posted Part 1 of the Slipstream blog. In it I discussed the concept and fundamental problem of Slipstream, namely that it is a shorthand term for “slipping genre fiction into the mainstream” … Continue reading
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Thomas McGuane’s Canny CROW FAIR (Stories)
Most of the stories in Thomas McGuane’s collection Crow Fair (Vintage, 2015; paperback, 2016) originally appeared in The New Yorker, but don’t hold that against the author; his narratives are not about or addressed to Martians. In fact, McGuane and … Continue reading
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“Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent beneath.”
By Maddie Schaffer With 2016 being the 75th anniversary of the Curious George series, I decided to delve into some of the history surrounding what has become a multi-mullion dollar franchise of a rambunctious monkey and his keeper who not … Continue reading