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Pauletta Hansel writes that she honored to be hosting and participating in a reading from her late mentor, Bob Snyder’s posthumously published book of poems. She says, “Many of you know my personal and poetic history is interwoven in the fabric of the renaissance of Appalachian literature and activism that began in the 1970s. When I was a very young poet—16 years old—I dropped out of high school and went to college. Antioch Appalachia in Beckley WV was already a hotbed of Appalachian writing thanks to its founder, Bob Snyder who, perhaps not coincidentally, was also one of the founders of what became Cincinnati’s Urban Appalachian Council, another formative organization in my life. Its successor is, of course, the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition. At Antioch we formed the Soupbean Poets and published a number of journals and chapbooks. My first visit to Cincinnati was for a reading by the Soupbean Poets at UAC’s Harriet Tubman/Mother Jones Folk School. We were invited there by Mike Henson, and met urban Appalachian poet Dick Hague that weekend as well. Bob Snyder was at the center of all this work. He died way too soon, in the mid-1990s; big thanks to his sister and friends, and to Dos Madres Press, for bringing his final manuscript to press. And big thanks , too, to all the Appalachian writers, UACC stewards Mike Henson, Dick Hague and Dale Marie Prenatt among them, who will be reading Bob’s poems. We hope you will join us at this reading. Click the button BELOW the flyer to register.
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