Kendra Winchester talks to Denali Sai Nalamalapu, the author and illustrator of Holler: A Graphic Memoir of Rural Resistance.

Things Mentioned

• Read Appalachia Newsletter

Books Mentioned

• Holler: A Memoir of Rural Resistance by Denali Sai Nalamalapu
• Ash’s Cabin by Jen Wang
• Heavyweight by Solomon J. Brager

Guest Info

Denali Sai Nalamalapu is a climate organizer from Southern Maine and Southern India. Denali lives in Southwest Virginia. They have written for Truthout, Prism, and Mergoat Magazine, and their climate activism has been covered in Shondaland, Vogue India, Self, The Independent, and elsewhere. They studied English Literature at Bates College and completed a Fulbright grant in Malaysia. You can find them at @DenaliSai on Instagram.

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Kendra Winchester talks to Frank X Walker, the author of Load in Nine Times.

Things Mentioned

• Read Appalachia Newsletter

Books Mentioned

• A is for Affrilachia by Frank X Walker, Illustrated by upfromsumdirt
• Load in Nine Times by Frank X Walker
• The Big Smoke by Adian Matejka

Guest Info

The first African American writer to be named Kentucky Poet Laureate, Frank X Walker is Professor of English and African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky in Lexington where he founded pluck! The Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture. He has published eleven collections of poetry, including Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers, which was awarded an NAACP Image Award for Poetry and the Black Caucus American Library Association Honor Award for Poetry. He is also the author of Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York, winner of a Lillian Smith Book Award, and Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride, which he adapted for stage. Voted one of the most creative professors in the south, Walker, a Danville native, coined the term “Affrilachia” and co-founded the Affrilachian Poets. A Cave Canem fellow, his honors also include a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry. His most recent collection is Masked Man, Black: Pandemic & Protest Poems.

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Kendra Winchester talks with Dr. Amy Clark, the creator of The Talking Appalachian Podcast.

Things Mentioned

• The Talking Appalachian Podcast
  Talking Appalachian is a podcast about the Appalachian Mountain region's voiceplace (its words and accents) and other aspects of its culture, such as literature, lore, and locale. Hosted by Dr. Amy Clark, an applied linguist and co-founding Director of the Center for Appalachian Studies at the University of Virginia's College at Wise. Her writing on Appalachia has appeared in the New York Times, Oxford American Magazine, Salon.com, on NPR, and Harvard University Press blog.

Books Mentioned

• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
• Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
• Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce
• What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte
• Judy Blume
• Stephen King
• Silas House
• Poems by Ron Rash
• English Lit by Bernard Clay
• Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina
• A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Dr. Amy Clark

Dr. Clark is Founding Director of the AWP, whose mission is to provide professional development opportunities to central Appalachian teachers K-college in the areas of communication studies (writing, speaking, media), and Young Writers Programs.

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