Many thanks to Wayne Goodman and the folks at Queer Words Podcast for including a lengthy interview with me! Here’s the link: https://queerwords.org/2019/02/12/jeff-mann/
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_Appalachian Reckoning_ and _Appalachian Heritage_
West Virginia University Press has just released Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy, an anthology edited by Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll. Many thanks to Theresa Burriss and the anthology’s editors for including my snarky poem, “Social Capital.” Quite a few Appalachians are profoundly annoyed with how J.
Read moreA PRODUCTIVE SABBATICAL: ESSAYS, POEMS, AND VIKINGS
Much to my great gratitude, professors at Virginia Tech can apply for a research leave every six years. I’ve taken mine for Fall Semester 2018 and Spring Semester 2019, and I’m glad to report that I’m getting a lot done. In Fall 2018, I wrote five new essays. “Muslim Food”
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