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Contributors to this issue: Book Reviewers Garry Barker has contributed to our magazine dozens of times over the past two decades. He is currently director of the Kentucky Folk Art Center at Morehead State University in Kentucky . . . Richard Drake, retired chair and professor in the history department of Berea College, remains active in both the college community and Appalachian affairs . . . William Jolliff teaches American literature at George Fox College in Newberg, Oregon. He both writes and editspoetry . . . George Ella Lyon, a native ofHarlan, Kentucky, has written numerous children's books, novels, stories, andpoems, and has been involved in seminars and writing workshops . . . John Walhausser is the Penniman Professor ofPhilosophy and Religion at Berea College . . . Janey Wilson is a reference librarian and instructor ofvarious courses, including thefirst course in American women's history.at Berea College. Poets Claire Esham, Danville, Kentucky, says the subjects ofherpoetry comefrom her native home in Lewis County . . . Sally Iseral-Shepherd, originallyfrom Crittenden, Kentucky, is now contemplating the moon and starsfrom the foothills ofBerea, Kentucky . . . Dan Leidig is retiredfrom teaching poetry and folk literature at Emory and Henry College, where he also served as editor ofthe Iron Mountain Review . . . Pia Seagraves has been published in a number ofjournals and studies. A professor ofEnglish at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., she lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Photographers David Stephenson, son ofthe late Berea College president, John Stephenson, is afreelance photographer, living in Berea. He photographed the redwing blackbirdjust days before we went topress. Hisphotograph on the back cover is also recent. They are "fresh" in every sense ofthe word . . . Randy Ball, Rutledge, Tennessee, needs no introduction; he has generously shared his photographs and we have published them many times. 80 ...

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