American Purgatory by RebeccaGayleHowell Paperback, 58 Pages, Published 2017 by Eyewear Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-911335-44-3, ISBN: 1-911335-44-8
"Poetry. Winner of the 2016 Sexton Prize for Poetry (selected by Don Share of Poetry magazine), AMERICAN PURGATORY is a story of the working class, a dystopia set in a near-future United States marked by severe drought, herbicidal warfare, and a totalitarian climate of poverty. This purgatory is populated by those who believe that if they work hard enough, they will be set free. Against this backdrop, three unlikely characters begin a jo ..."
Render / An Apocalypse(1st Edition) (Cleveland State University Poetry Center New Poetry) by RebeccaGayleHowell, Nick Flynn Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2013 by Cleveland State University Poetry Center ISBN-13: 978-0-9860257-3-0, ISBN: 0-9860257-3-9
"Poetry. "To enter into these poems one must be fully committed, as the poet is, to seeing this world as it is, to staying with it, moment by moment, day by day. Yet these poems hold a dark promise: this is how you can do it, but you must be fully engaged, which means you must be fully awake, you must wake up inside it. As we proceed, the how-to of the beginning poems subtly transform, as the animals (or, more specifically, the livestock ..."
The Quare Women A Story of the Kentucky Mountains (Fireside Industries) by Lucy Furman, RebeccaGayleHowell Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2019 by Fireside Industries, An Imprint Of University Press Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-1-950564-03-3, ISBN: 1-950564-03-7
"When Katherine Pettit and May Stone arrived in the rural Appalachian mountains of eastern Kentucky to engage in social settlement work in the late 1800s, they were unmarried outsiders, living in pitched tents on the side of a hill, and perceived as odd, peculiar―and "quare" (the local pronunciation of "queer"). Yet these strong, capable educators wanted to "learn all we can and teach all we can," and in doing so would persevere to estab ..."
""Through these poems, Amal al-Jubouri connects us to the earliest known poems, and yet the dialectic tension between them is utterly contemporary. Al-Jubouri writes 'This is my protest, this is my folly, ' yet these poems are neither simple protest nor in any sense folly. These poems are both essential and eternal."--Nick FlynnThis translation of Iraqi author Amal al-Jubouri contextualizes America's occupation of Iraq through the Qur'an ..."
"The term "Holocaust survivors" is often associated with Jewish communities in New York City or along Florida's Gold Coast. Traditionally, tales of America's Holocaust survivors, in both individual and cultural histories, have focused on places where people fleeing from Nazi atrocities congregated in large numbers for comfort and community following World War II. Yet not all Jewish refugees chose to settle in heavily populated areas of t ..."
"Yes, there is barbecue, but that’s just one course of the meal. With Vinegar and Char the Southern Foodways Alliance celebrates twenty years of symposia by offering a collection of poems that are by turns as sophisticated and complex, as vivid and funny, and as buoyant and poignant as any SFA gathering.The roster of contributors includes Natasha Trethewey, Robert Morgan, Atsuro Riley, Adrienne Su, Richard Blanco, Ed Madden, Nikky Finney ..."
The Belly of the Whale(Bilingual) The Bilingual Edition (Desert Humanities) by Prado, Claudia, Howell, RebeccaGayle Hardcover, 108 Pages, Published 2024 by Texas Tech University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-68283-205-9, ISBN: 1-68283-205-8
"Voices such as Sonia Sanchez, Faisal Mohyuddin, Natalie Diaz, Ocean Vuong, Silas House, Sonia Guiñansaca, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Victoria Chang, Crystal Wilkinson, Gerald Stern, and Jericho Brown weave together the living stories of the ..."
"... NUCLEAR FAMILY ELSPETH SMITH KEEPING BUSY TONY CHAN FOUR POINTS FOURTEEN LINES MARIA APICHELLA PSALMODY TERESE SVOBODA PROFESSOR HARRIMAN'S STEAM AIR-SHIP ALICE ANDERSON THE WATERMARK BEN PARKER THE AMAZING LOST MAN MANDY KAHN MATH, ..."
This Is Home Now Kentucky's Holocaust Survivors Speak (Kentucky Remembered, an Oral History Series) by RebeccaGayleHowell ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-3521-2, ISBN: 0-8131-3521-4
"Getting acquainted with local flora and fauna is the perfect way to begin to understand the wonder of nature. The natural environment of Southern Appalachia, with habitats that span the Blue Ridge to the Cumberland Plateau, is one of the most biodiverse on earth. A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia―a hybrid literary and natural history anthology―showcases sixty of the many species indigenous to the region.Ecologically, cultura ..."
"The Artist as Activist in Appalachia is a collection of essays, stories, poetry and photography that focuses on how people not only care for each other and for the land but also disagree with each other about the best methods to do both. The book includes the reflections of people who have "been to the mountaintop" and experienced the trials of coal mining, unions and the government."
"Mary Ann Taylor-Hall provided many hours of support to both the photographer
and the author during the installation of the exhibit, as well as access to Jim's
studio and equipment, which brought the large-scale photographs into reach.
Rob Magrish has our thanks for providing the space and support of the Lexington
History Museum for the exhibit. Rebecca Howell would also like to thank Harriet
Logan for her early, instructive advice ..."