Ep. 45 | Poetry Corner: Marianne Worthington
In the latest installment of our minisode series, Poetry Corner, Kendra Winchester is joined by Marianne Worthington.
Things Mentioned
Books Mentioned
The Girl Singer by Marianne Worthington
What Good Is Heaven by Raye Hendrix
The Singing River by Benjamin Morris
Have You Had Enough Darkness Yet? by Irene McKinney
Load in Nine Times by Frank X Walker
With My Back to the World by Victoria Chang
Guest Info
(c) Dereck Hammers
Marianne Worthington grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, and moved to southeastern Kentucky in 1990 where she works as a teacher, editor & writer. In 2009 she co-founded Still: The Journal, an online literary magazine publishing writers, artists, and musicians with ties to the Appalachian region. She received the Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council and the Appalachian Book of the Year Award for her poetry chapbook, Larger Bodies Than Mine. She was awarded grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and the Appalachian Sound Archives Fellowship at Berea College. With Silas House she co-edited Piano in a Sycamore: Writing Lessons from the Appalachian Writers’ Workshop, a craft anthology from teachers at the Appalachian Writers’ Workshop from the last 40 years. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Oxford American, CALYX, Grist, Reckon Review, Cheap Pop, Appalachian Review, Feed, Ethel, and Chapter 16 among other places. She teaches communication studies and media writing to college students. She often teaches poetry and nonfiction writing classes for workshops and conferences. University Press of Kentucky published her poetry collection, The Girl Singer, in late 2021.
