Our conversation this week is with Hilda Downer. She's an Appalachian poet, retired psychiatric nurse and English instructor at Appalachian State University, member of the Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative, and most importantly, a child of Bandana, NC.  In this episode we talk about Hilda's love for Bandana, the mica and feldspar mines as a haven, seeing beauty in what others see as ugly, walking and tasting nature, seclusion as a reason to get together, an infinite connection through landscapes and music, poets projecting themselves into the future, finding her place at Wiley's Last Resort and SAWC, the life and legacy of Jim Webb, poets as legislators of the world, and attention as the rarest form of generosity.  Location: Hilda's home in Sugar Grove, North Carolina Read Hilda's work: Wiley's Last Resort When the Light Waits for Us Sky Under the Roof Bandana Creek   Mentioned this episode: Groundglass by Kathryn Savage Jim Webb Wiley's Last Resort Battle at Blair Mountain by Hilda Downer Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel Literary Magazine Mitchell County Historical Society: Bandana Roan Highlands Ecology The Year of My Life by Issa Kobayashi The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot Southern Appalachian Writers Collective Pauletta Hansel Legislators of the World by Adrienne Rich Mountaintop Removal 101 - Appalachian Voices Appalshop          

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