Rest in Power, bell hooks

Sharing our favorite passages from the rural Kentucky literary icon.

When launching The Goldenrod this July, there was a single poem I returned to time and again as a lodestar for what sort of inclusive, rural-focused newsletter we wanted to create. The poem, Appalachian Elegy, was by—who else?—Hopkinsville-native and Berea-resident bell hooks. I finally settled on this passage from section six and included it in our fir…