BOONE, N.C. — The latest issue of Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review (volume 53, number 2), will arrive in subscribers’ mailboxes shortly. This winter 2026 edition of Appalachian Journal includes scholarly articles, book reviews, poetry, and a wonderful interview between Appalachian Journal’s founding editor J.W. Williamson and John Thomas York, in addition to the usual features, such as Signs of the Times with Annie Greenwood’s brilliant illustrations.
This issue features new, previously unpublished poetry from Skyler Lambert, A. Michael Schultz, Brian Beatty, Michael Chitwood, Jenna Rindo, Michael McFee, Ricardo Nazario y Colón, and Marc Harshman that you won’t want to miss. Eleven reviews of recently-published books are featured in the winter issue, and the works reviewed range from memoir to history, and poetry to scholarship.
For those fans and scholars of Barbara Kingsolver’s work, Michael Tager explores her portrayal of regional opioid abuse in Demon Copperhead in his article “Examining the Opioid Epidemic in Appalachia—Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead.”
With so many recent and forthcoming works by Robert Morgan, Keith Moser’s timely article, “The ‘Great Story’ of Life as a Bittersweet Symphony in Michel Serres’ Philosophy and in Robert Morgan’s Late Poetry” will be sure to inform readers and scholars familiar with Morgan’s vast oeuvre.
You can purchase or renew your subscription through UNC Press. You can also access the latest issue through Project Muse and libraries that subscribe to Appalachian Journal.
Related: Winter 2025 edition of As the Crow Flies now available
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About the Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review
Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, founded in 1972, is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed quarterly journal housed at Appalachian State University. The journal features field research, interviews and other scholarly studies of history, politics, economics, culture, folklore, literature, music, ecology and a variety of other topics, as well as poetry and reviews of books, films and recordings dealing with the Appalachian Mountains region. Learn more at appjournal.appstate.edu.
About the Center for Appalachian Studies
The Center for Appalachian Studies promotes public programs, community collaboration, civic engagement and scholarship on the Appalachian region. The center is committed to building healthy communities and deepening knowledge of Appalachia’s past, present and future through community-based research and engagement. Learn more at appcenter.appstate.edu.
Written by Dr. Jessica Cory
Edited by Lauren Gibbs
January 9, 2026
BOONE, N.C.
Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review (vol. 53, no. 2)
Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review (vol. 53, no. 2)