Bibliography

Book Collections in Which James Still’s Poems Have Appeared

Blum, Joshua, Bob Holman, Mark Pellington, comps. The United States of Poetry. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996.

Bread Loaf Anthology. Middlebury, Vt.: Middlebury College Press, 1939.

Brewton, Sara, and John E. Brewton, comps. America Forever New. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1968.

Browning, Sister Mary Carmel, ed. Kentucky Authors. Owensboro, Ky.: Bresica College, 1968.

Country Traveler. New York: Time-Life, 1990.

Francisco, Edward, Robert Vaughan, and Linda Francisco, comps. The South in Perspective: An Anthology of Southern Literature. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2001.

Higgs, Robert J., Ambrose N. Manning, and Jim Wayne Miller, eds. Appalachia Inside Out, Volume 1: Conflict and Change. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995.

———. Appalachia Inside Out, Volume 2: Culture and Custom. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995.

McNeil, Nellie, and Joyce Squibb, eds. A Southern Appalachian Reader. Boone, N.C.: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1989.

Montgomery, Whitney, and Vaida Stewart Montgomery, eds. Moon in the Steeple. Dallas: Kaleidograph Press, 1937.

———. Sparks Afar. Dallas: Kaleidograph Press, 1936.

Stewart, Albert, ed. Dark Unsleeping Land: Kentucky Writing No. 3. Morehead, Ky.: Morehead State College Press, 1966.

Still, James. Hounds on the Mountain. New York: Viking Press, 1937.

———. River of Earth: The Poem and Other Poems. Lexington, Ky.: King Library Press, 1982-83.

———. Way Down Yonder on Troublesome Creek: Appalachian Riddles and Rusties. New York: Putnam, 1974; Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986.

———. The Wolfpen Poems. Berea, Ky.: Berea College Press, 1986.

———. The Wolfpen Rusties: Appalachian Riddles and Gee-Haw Whimmy-Diddles. New York: Putnam, 1975; Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1989.

White, Helen, and Redding S. Sugg Jr., eds. From the Mountains. Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1972.

Previous Publications of James Still’s Poems

“Abandoned House.” Progressive Farmer 69, no. 4 (Apr. 1954): 102.

“After Some Twenty Years Attempting to Describe a Flowering Branch of Redbud.” Appalachian Heritage 16, no. 2 and 3 (spring/summer 1988): 13; River of Earth.

“Aftergrass.” Kaleidograph 7, no. 10 (Feb. 1936): 6; River of Earth; Wolfpen Poems.

“Answer.” Kaleidograph 7, no. 2 (Jun. 1935): 13; Montgomery, Sparks Afar.

“Apple Trip.” New York Times, 17 Jun. 1958, 28; Mountain Life and Work 39, no. 3 (fall 1963): 45; Appalachian Heritage 4, no. 2 (spring 1976): 1; Appalachian Heritage 13, no. 3 (summer 1985): 13; Wolfpen Poems; Wolfpen Rusties.

“Apples.” Atlantic 179, no. 2 (Feb. 1947): 112; Stewart, Dark Unsleeping Land; Browning, Kentucky Authors; Appalachian Heritage 4, no. 2 (spring 1976): 1; Appalachian Heritage 13, no. 3 (summer 1985): 20; Wolfpen Poems.

“Apples in the Well.” The American Voice 5 (winter 1986): 73.

“Are You Up There, Bad Jack?” Appalachian Heritage 7, no. 2 (spring 1979): 58; Appalachian Heritage 13, no. 3 (summer 1985): 9; Wolfpen Poems.

“Artist.” Kentucky Poetry Review 25, no. 2 (fall/winter 1989/90): 102.

“At Year’s End.” The American Voice 38 (1995): 121.

“Banjo Bill Cornett” [“Banjo Bill Cowley,” “Banjo Bill Brewer”]. Household Magazine 38, no. 7 (Jul. 1938): 1; Appalachian Heritage 13, no. 3 (summer 1985): 17; River of Earth; Wolfpen Poems.

“Broken Ibis, The.” Virginia Quarterly Review 23, no. 3 (summer 1947): 385; Browning, Kentucky Authors, Stewart, Dark Unsleeping Land; Wolfpen Poems.

“Burned Tree” [“A Burned Tree Speaks”]. Boy’s Life 21, no. 10 (Oct. 1931): 61.

“Candidate” [“Statement to a Candidate”]. Mountain Life and Work 50, no. 12 (Dec. 1974), back cover; Wolfpen Poems.

“Child in the Hills.” Atlantic 157, no. 2 (Feb. 1936): 226; Hounds on the Mountain; Appalachian Heritage 13, no. 3 (summer 1985): 15; Wolfpen Poems.

“Child’s Wisdom, A” [“Child’s Country”]. New York Times, 22 May 1938, 8E; River of Earth; Wolfpen Poems.

“Clabe Mott” [“Mountain Men: (1) Uncle Ambrose, (2) Clabe Mott”]. Kaleidograph 7, no. 9 (Jan. 1936): 13; Montgomery, Moon in the Steeple; Appalachian Heritage 13, no. 3 (summer 1985): 16; River of Earth; Wolfpen Poems.

“Coal Town” [“Mountain Coal Town”]. Sewanee Review 44, no. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1936): 319; Hounds on the Mountain; Wolfpen Poems; Higgs, Appalachia Inside Out, Volume 1.

“Come Down from the Hills.” Hounds on the Mountain; Wolfpen Poems.

“Common Crow, The.” Kentucky Poetry Review 16, nos. 2-3 (summer-fall 1980): 50; Wolfpen Poems.

“Court Day.” Hounds on the Mountain; Lexington Leader, 4 Jul. 1937, 5; Wolfpen Poems.

“Dance on Pushback” [“Dance on Pushback Mountain”]. Esquire 6, no. 4 (Oct. 1936): 65; Appalachian Heritage 13, no. 3 (summer 1985): 10; Wolfpen Poems; Wolfpen Rusties.

“Day of Flowers” [“Memorial Day: Little Carr Creek”]. Kentucky Poetry Review 14, no. 1 (winter-spring 1978): 3; River of Earth; Wolfpen Poems.

“Death in the Hills.” Fantasy 6, no. 2 (1939): 22.

“Death of a Fox.” Wolfpen Poems.

“Death on the Mountain” [also published as part of a larger poem of the same name; that poem included all of “Shield of Hills” and part of “Yesteryear’s People”). Mountain Life and Work 11, no. 4 (Jan. 1936): 15; Hounds on the Mountain; Wolfpen Poems.

“Dove.” Appalachian Heritage 21, no. 2 (spring 1993): 3.

“Dreams.” Arcadian Magazine 1, no. 3 (Apr. 1931): 23.

“Drought” [“Drought on Troublesome”]. Virginia Quarterly Review 21, no. 2 (spring 1945): 238; Wolfpen Poems.

“Dulcimer” [“Mountain Dulcimer”]. Virginia Quarterly Review 11, no. 3 (Jul. 1935): 396; Literary Digest 120, no. 4 (27 Jul. 1935): 28; Mountain Life and Work 11, no. 3 (Oct. 1935): 10; Hounds on the Mountain; Durham [N.C.] Herald, 4 Jul. 1937; Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, 4 Jul. 1937; Greensboro [N.C.] News, 4 Jul. 1937; Mountain Life and Work 39, no. 2 (summer 1965): 15; Wolfpen Poems.

“Early Whippoorwill.” Nation 178, no. 13 (17 Mar. 1954): 263; Appalachian Heritage 2, no. 4, and 3, no. 1 (fall-winter 1974-75): 141; Browning, Kentucky Authors; Stewart, Dark Unsleeping Land; Appalachian Heritage 13, no. 3 (summer 1985): 17; Wolfpen Poems.

“Earth-Bread” [“Black Bread”]. Publications of the Poetry Society of Florida, 1936; Poetry 50, no. 2 (May 1937): 70-71; Wolfpen Poems; Higgs, Appalachia Inside Out, Volume 1.

“Epitaph for Uncle Ira Combs, Mountain Preacher.” Hounds on the Mountain; Lexington Leader, 4 Jul. 1937, 5; The Teacher, Apr. 1938, 34; Wolfpen Poems.

“Eyes in the Grass.” Hounds on the Mountain; Miami Daily News, 8 Aug. 1937; Scholastic 31, no. 27 (18 Sep. 1937); Wolfpen Poems.

“Farm” [“Mountain Farm”]. Household Magazine 36, no. 3 (Mar. 1936): 58; Hounds on the Mountain; Wolfpen Poems; Francisco, The South in Perspective.

“Fiddle” [“Mountain Fiddle”]. Publications of the Poetry Society of Florida, Jan. 1936; Household Magazine 38, no. 9 (Sep. 1938): 1.

“Fiddlers’ Convention on Troublesome Creek.” New York Herald-Tribune, 13 Jul. 1936, 20.

“Foal” [“Spring Foal”]. Mountain Life and Work 12, no. 1 (Apr. 1936): 11; Wind 2, no. 7 (spring 1973): 3; Wolfpen Poems.

“Fox Hunt on Defeated Creek.” Frontier and Midland 16, no. 3 (spring 1936): 186; New York Herald-Tribune, 28 Jun. 1936.

“Funnel Spider.” Appalachian Review 2, no. 3 (spring 1968): 14; Wolfpen Poems.

“Granny Frolic” [“Granny Frolic on Wolfpen,” “Granny Race,” “On Double Creek” (different from the poem of the same name in Hounds on the Mountain)]. Saturday Evening Post 212, no. 40 (30 Mar. 1940): 62; Mountain Life and Work 43, no. 4 (Feb. 1968): 23; Wolfpen Rusties; Appalachian Heritage 13, no. 3 (summer 1985): 8; Wolfpen Poems.

“Graveyard” [“Graveyard in the Hills”]. Atlantic 158, no. 1 (Jul. 1936): 93; New York Herald-Tribune, 28 Jun. 1936; Louisville Courier-Journal, 27 Jun. 1937, 7; Lincoln Herald [Lincoln Memorial University publication] 41 (Oct. 1938): 10; Hounds on the Mountain; Wolfpen Poems.

“Here in My Bed.” Kentucky Poetry Review 21, no. 1 (spring/summer 1985): 29.

“Heritage” [“Mountain Heritage”]. New Republic 85, no. 1098 (18 Dec. 1935): 170; Boston Evening Transcript, 17 Jul. 1937, 2, 9; Hounds on the Mountain; Appalachian Heritage 13, no. 3 (summer 1985): 11; Wolfpen Poems; Country Traveler; McNeil, A Southern Appalachian Reader; Blum, The United States of Poetry; Higgs, Appalachia Inside Out, Volume 2.

“High Field.” Appalachian Heritage 13, nos. 1-2 (winter/spring 1985): 15; Wolfpen Poems.

“Hill-Born, The.” Sewanee Review 44, no. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1936): 99; Hounds on the Mountain; Appalachian Heritage 13, no. 3 (summer 1985): 6; Wolfpen Poems.

“Hill-Lonely.” Household Magazine 38, no. 11 (Nov. 1938): 1.

“Hillsman Speaks, A.” Arcadian Life 24 (Feb. 1937): 5.

“Horse Swapping” [“Horse Swapping on Troublesome Creek”]. Saturday Review of Literature 12, no. 11 (13 Jul. 1935): 10; Columbia [S.C.] State, 11 Jul. 1937; Hounds on the Mountain; Wolfpen Poems.

“Horseback in the Rain.” Boston Evening Transcript, 17 Jul. 1937, 2; Frontier and Midland 17, no. 3 (spring 1937): 158; Hounds on the Mountain; Wolfpen Poems.

“Hounds on the Mountain.” Sewanee Review 45, no. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1937): 165; Louisville Courier-Journal, 16 May 1937, section 4, p. 4; Hounds on the Mountain; Unaka Range 4 (Jun. 1977): 6; Appalachian Heritage 13, no. 3 (summer 1985): 14; Wolfpen Poems.

“Hunter.” Kentucky Poetry Review 14, no. 1 (winter-spring 1978): 4; River of Earth; Wolfpen Poems.

“I Shall Go Singing.” Arcadian Life 32 (Feb. 1938): 1.

“I Was Born Humble” [“Death in the Forest”]. Saturday Review of Literature 14, no. 26 (24 Oct. 1936): 4; Miami Daily News, 8 Aug. 1937; Louisville Courier-Journal, 27 Jun. 1937, 7; Lincoln Herald [Lincoln Memorial University publication] 41 (Oct. 1938): 10; Chattahoochee Valley Times, 31 Jan. 1940, 4; Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, 11 Feb. 1940, section 1, p. 6; Hounds on the Mountain; Wolfpen Poems.

“In My Dreaming.” Kentucky Poetry Review 23, no. 2 (summer/fall 1987): 48.

“Infare” [“Mountain Infare”]. Poetry 47, no. 1 (Oct. 1935): 13; Hounds on the Mountain; Wolfpen Poems.

“Interval.” The Skyline [Colorado newspaper], 1936, 1.

“Journey Beyond the Hills.” Yale Review 26, no. 1 (autumn 1936): 133; Louisville Courier-Journal, 8 Nov. 1936, 4; Hounds on the Mountain; Appalachian Heritage 13, no. 3 (summer 1985): 19; Wolfpen Poems.

“Knife Trader.” Appalachian Heritage 18, no. 3 (summer 1990): 9.

“Lamp.” Mountain Life and Work 45, no. 4 (Apr. 1969): 20; Appalachian Heritage 1, no. 1 (winter 1973): 45; Appalachian Heritage 13, no. 3 (summer 1985): 18; River of Earth; Wolfpen Poems.

“Leap, Minnows, Leap.” Saturday Review of Literature 17, no. 16 (12 Feb. 1938): 5; Bread Loaf Anthology; Louisville Courier-Journal, 1 May 1938, 7; Browning, Kentucky Authors; Stewart, Dark Unsleeping Land; Appalachian Heritage 13, no. 3 (summer 1985): 12; Wolfpen Poems.

“Lizard.” Approaches 7, no. 2 (winter/spring 1971): 5; Wolfpen Poems.

“Madly to Learn.” New Letters 51, no. 2 (winter 1984-85): 38-39.

“Man O’ War” [“Stallion”]. New Grounds [Sue Bennett College publication], 21; Approaches 5, no. 3 (May 1969): 8.

“Man Singing to Himself, A” [“Ballad”]. New York Times, 27 Jul. 1937, 20; Appalachian Heritage 11, no. 3 (summer 1983): 3; Wolfpen Poems.

“Mine Is a Wide Estate.” Appalachian Heritage 25, no. 2 (spring 1997): 3.

“Morning: Dead Mare Branch” [“Morning on the Hills,” “Morning”]. Better Home 4, no. 2 (Apr.-May-Jun. 1938): 15; River of Earth; Wolfpen Poems.

“Mountain Fox Hunt” [“Fox Hunt”]. Poetry 47, no. 1 (Oct. 1935): 12; Literary Digest 120, no. 14 (5 Oct. 1935): 25; Hounds on the Mountain; Wolfpen Poems.

“Mountain Men Are Free.” Arcadian Life 36 (Sep.-Oct. 1938): 27; Fantasy 6, no. 1 (1938): 28.

“Mrs. Lloyd, Her Rag Sale.” Appalachian Heritage 23, no. 2 (spring 1995): 11.

“My Aunt Carrie.” [“Aunt Carrie”]. Appalachian Heritage 25, no. 2 (spring 1997): 27.

“My Days” [“In Retrospect”]. Appalachian Heritage 23, no. 3 (summer 1995): 3.

“Night in the Coal Camps.” Hounds on the Mountain; Wolfpen Poems; Higgs, Appalachia Inside Out, Volume 1.

“Nixie Middleton.” Buffalo [N.Y.] Times, 20 Jun. 1937, 105; Hounds on the Mountain; Appalachian Heritage 13, no. 3 (summer 1985): 19; Wolfpen Poems.

“Now Has Day Come” [“Sun-Ball on the Mountain”]. North Georgia Review 2, no. 2 (summer 1937): 6; White, From the Mountains; Twigs 11, no. 1 (fall 1974): 105; River of Earth; Appalachian Heritage 13, no. 3 (summer 1985): 16; Wolfpen Poems.

“Of Concern.” The American Voice 27 (1992): 3.

“Of the Faithful.” Appalachian Heritage 18, no. 3 (summer 1990): 9.

“Of the Wild Man.” The Wild Man: Touchstone, no. 6 (autumn 1978): n.p.; River of Earth; Wolfpen Poems.

“On Being Drafted into the U.S. Army from My Log Home on Wolfpen Creek in March 1942.” Approaches 8, no. 2 (spring 1972): 6; Wolfpen Poems.

“On Buckhorn Creek” [“Buckhorn Creek”]. Hounds on the Mountain; Wolfpen Poems.

“On Double Creek.” Providence [R.I.] Star-Tribune, Jun. 22, 1937; Hounds on the Mountain; Wolfpen Poems.

“On Redbird Creek” [“Redbird Creek”]. Sewanee Review 45, no. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1937): 23; Louisville Courier-Journal, 14 Mar. 1937, 9; Boston Evening Transcript, 17 Jul. 1937, 2; Hounds on the Mountain; Wolfpen Poems.

“On the Passing of My Brother Alfred” [“On the Passing of My Good Friend John”]. Kentucky Poetry Review 20, no. 2 (fall 1984): 108; Appalachian Heritage 23, no. 1 (winter 1995): 3.

“On Troublesome Creek” [“Troublesome Creek”]. Sewanee Review 44, no. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1936): 163; Miami Daily News, 8 Aug. 1937; Hounds on the Mountain; Wolfpen Poems.

“Passenger Pigeons.” New York Times, 5 Feb. 1936, 18; Lexington Herald, 26 May 1936, 12; Hounds on the Mountain; Wolfpen Poems.

“Passing of a County Sheriff” [“Death of a County Sheriff”]. North Georgia Review 5, no. 2 (summer 1940): 6; Mountain Life and Work 44, no. 6 (Jul. 1968): 17; White, From the Mountains; Twigs 11, no. 1 (fall 1974): 105; River of Earth; Appalachian Heritage 13, no. 3 (summer 1985): 20; Wolfpen Poems.

“Pattern for Death.” Nation 144, no. 1 (2 Jan. 1937): 22; Miami Daily News, 8 Aug. 1937; Hounds on the Mountain; Appalachian Heritage 13, no. 3 (summer 1985): 13; Wolfpen Poems; Francisco, The South in Perspective.

“Post Offices.” Way Down Yonder on Troublesome Creek.

“Rain on the Cumberlands.” Kaleidograph 8, no. 6 (Oct. 1936): 9; Hounds on the Mountain; Wolfpen Poems.

“Reckoning” [“Mountain Twilight”]. Sewanee Review 43, no. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1935): 435.

“River of Earth.” Mountain Life and Work 13, no. 1 (Apr. 1937): 9; River of Earth; Appalachian Heritage 13, no. 3 (summer 1985): 7; Wolfpen Poems.

“Shield of Hills” [also published as part of a larger poem, “Death on the Mountain”; that poem included all of this volume’s version of “Death on the Mountain” and part of “Yesteryear’s People”]. Mountain Life and Work 11, no. 4 (Jan. 1936): 15; Hounds on the Mountain; Wolfpen Poems.

“Spring” [“Spring on Troublesome Creek”]. New Republic 90, no. 1165 (31 Mar. 1937): 237; Scholastic 31, no. 27 (18 Sep. 1937); Hounds on the Mountain; Wolfpen Poems.

“This Man Dying” [“Death of an Old Man”]. The Lyric 18, no. 4 (winter 1939): 183; Fantasy 7, no. 1 (1941): 20.

“Those I Want in Heaven with Me Should There Be Such a Place.” Appalachian Journal 18, no. 2 (winter 1991): 222.

“Tracks on Stone.” Household Magazine 36, no. 7 (Jul. 1936): 25.

“Trees in the Road, The.” Appalachian Review 2, no. 2 (winter 1968): 5; River of Earth; Wolfpen Poems.

“Truck Driver.” Appalachian Heritage 18, no. 3 (summer 1990): 9.

“Uncle Ambrose” [“Mountain Men: (1) Uncle Ambrose, (2) Clabe Mott”]. Kaleidograph 7, no. 9 (Jan. 1936): 13; Hounds on the Mountain; Brewton, America Forever New; Wolfpen Poems.

“Unemployed Coal Miner” [“Unemployed Coal Miners”]. Kentucky Poetry Review 21, no. 1 (spring/summer 1985): 29; Appalachian Heritage 16, no. 2 and 3 (summer 1988): 13.

“Visitor.” Wind 10, no. 38 (1980): 70.

“Welcome, Somewhat, Despite the Disorder.” Confrontations 1, no. 2 (spring-summer 1977): 1; Kentucky Philological Review 13 (1998): 40.

“What Have You Heard Lately?” New Letters 51, no. 2 (winter 1984-85): 38.

“When the Dulcimers Are Gone.” Poetry 47, no. 1 (Oct. 1935): 14; Lexington Leader, 29 Oct. 1936, 12; Louisville Courier-Journal, 27 Oct. 1935, section 3, p. 4; Hounds on the Mountain; Wolfpen Poems; Francisco, The South in Perspective.

“Where the Mares Have Fed” [“High Pastures”]. Fantasy 5, no. 4 (1937): 16.

“White Highways.” Publications of the Poetry Society of Florida, Apr. 1936, 3; Scholastic 31, no. 27 (18 Sep.1937); Poetry 50, no. 2 (May 1937): 70; Hounds on the Mountain; Kentucky Alumnus 50, no. 3 (summer 1980): 16-17; Appalachian Heritage 13, no. 3 (summer 1985): 12; Wolfpen Poems.

“Wilderness.” Kaleidograph 7, no. 5 (Sep. 1935): 8.

“Winter Tree.” Appalachian Heritage 4, no. 1 (winter 1976): 60; Wolfpen Poems.

“With Hands Like Leaves.” Kaleidograph 8, no. 12 (Apr. 1937): 4; Hounds on the Mountain; Miami Daily News, 8 Aug. 1937; Louisville Courier-Journal, 27 Jun. 1937, 7; Wolfpen Poems.

“Wolfpen Creek” [“Beloved Place,” “Littcarr, Kentucky,” “On Wolfpen Creek”]. Saturday Evening Post 227, no. 3 (17 Jul. 1954): 78; Mountain Life and Work 42, no. 2 (summer 1966): 21; Wolfpen Rusties; River of Earth; Appalachian Heritage 13, no. 3 (summer 1985): 18; Wolfpen Poems.

“Year of the Pigeons.” Hounds on the Mountain; Wolfpen Poems.

“Yesterday in Belize.” Kentucky Poetry Review 24, no. 2 (fall 1988): 33.

“Yesteryear’s People” [“Death on Troublesome Creek”; one stanza of this poem was published as part of a larger poem, “Death on the Mountain,” which included all of this volume’s version of “Death on the Mountain” and all of “Shield of Hills”]. Kaleidograph 8, no. 10 (Feb. 1937): 12; Hounds on the Mountain; Wolfpen Poems.