Ron Rash (? - Present)

Ron Rash is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer and educator, has received numerous awards for his poetry and fiction, including the recently announced Appalachian Writers Association’s Book of the Year Award for his novel “One Foot in Eden.”

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(Watauga County, 1895)
As though shedding an old skin,	1 Comment
Barbed wire snags like briars when
Bed-sick she heard the bird's call
Between Wytheville, Virginia
If they had hair it was gray,
Knee deep in the Watauga's
Mouths shackled, dead or dying,
Some thought she had slipped, the plank
Sometimes I'd spend the whole night coughing up
Sometimes it only took a single word,
The lost can stay lost down here,
The night Silas Broughton died
The night smoothes out its black tarp,
Though cranes and bulldozers came,
Three days searchers worked below