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Joseph Bathanti received his M.A. from the University of Pittsburgh, and his M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College. He is currently Professor of Creative Writing at Appalachian State University in [...]

Driving a girl whose father loathed me, son of an Italian who labored on the open hearth, in a borrowed green Comet the PA line into Wheeling. Eighteen was legal in West Virginia: Marlboros and [...]

The moon leavens. Clumps of petrified potash gleam like fists in the furrow corrugation. Gymnosperm spills in the couch grass. Cropheld and fallow there is more beneath the sole than upturned by [...]