Today I'm featured at the Writeliving blog. Where I'm asked questions about where I'm from, and what it feels like not to be there any more. David Schuman invited me to answer the questions. Here's a Glamour Shot photo of him. The interview is here:
http://writeliving.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/misplaced-person-kent-shaw/
Since doing the interview, I wonder: What would it mean to be an Appalachian poet? I don't know. If I've lived here for three years, would I be allowed inside the club? I imagine not. You probably have to be born an Appalachian. And yet the poems I've written since living here are thick with the state of West Virginia. I have never grappled with so many trees. Or listened to mountains. Or stood against the ridiculous disparity that separates this state from every state around it.
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