Articles and Letters by Jim Wayne Miller

"Accepting Things Near." Appalachian Heritage 13.1-2 (Winter/Spring 1985): 16-23.
"Aftermath: The New Ethnicity." Center Magazine 7.5 (September/ October 1974): 78-79.
"Afterword." In Kentucky Is My Land by Jesse Stuart. Ashland, KY: Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1992. 97-107.
"All the Daughters of Her Father’s House." High Roads Folio 12 (1987): 4 1-45.
"...And Ladies of the Club" [review of The History of Southern Literature. Eds. Louis D. Rubin Jr., Blyden Jackson, Rayburn S. Moore, Lewis Simpson, and Thomas Daniel Young] Appalachian Journal 14.1 (Fall 1986): 64-69. Rpt. in The Future of Southern Letters, eds. Jefferson Humphries and John Lowe. New York: Oxford UP, 1996. 87-92.
"Anytime the Ground Is Uneven: The Outlook for Regional Studies and What to Look Out For." In Geography and Literature: A Meeting of the Disciplines. Eds. William E. Mallory and Paul Simpson-Housley. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 1987. 1-20.
"Appalachian Culture and History: Part of America’s Past and Present and Indicative of Its Future." Focus: Teaching English Language Arts 10 (Winter 1984): 1-12.
"Appalachian Education: A Critique and Suggestions for Reform." Appalachian Journal 5.1 (Autumn 1977): 13-22.
"Appalachia’s Literary Renaissance: An Essay-Review of Recent Publications." Appalachian Notes 5.4 (1977): 49-60.
"Appalachian Literature." In An Encyclopedia of East Tennessee. Eds. Jim Stokely and Jeff D. Johnson. Oak Ridge: Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge, 1981. 18.21.
"Appalachian Literature." Appalachian Journal 5.1 (Autumn 1977): 82-91.
"Appalachian Literature: At Home in This World." Iron Mountain Review 2.1 (Summer 1984): 23-28.
"Appalachian Studies Hard and Soft: The Action Folk and the Creative People." Appalachian Journal 9.2 & 3 (Winter. Spring 1982): 105-14.
"Appalachian Values/American Values: The Role of Colleges and Universities. I. Images of Appalachia." Appalachian Heritage 5.4 (Fall 1977): 24~27.
"Appalachian Values/American Values. II. From Frontiersman to SAM." Appalachian Heritage 5.4 (Fall 1977): 27-32.
"Appalachian Values/American Values. III. Culture and Environment: Who They Are and Why They’re Like They Are." Appalachian Heritage 6.1 (Winter 1978): 30-37.
"Appalachian Values/American Values. Part III. IV. Appalachian Values and Sociological Models." Appalachian Heritage 6.2 (Spring 1978): 11-12.
"Appalachian Values/American Values. Part III. V. Values and Value Stretch." Appalachian Heritage 6.2 (Spring 1978): 12.19.
"Appalachian Values/American Values. Part IV. VI. The Two Worlds of Appalachia." Appalachian Heritage 6.3 (Summer 1978): 23-28.
"Appalachian Values/American Values. Part IV. VII. Where the Action Is." Appalachian Heritage 6.3 (Summer 1978): 30-34.
"Appalachian Values/American Values. Part IV. VIII. A Certain Self-Consciousness." Appalachian Heritage 7.1 (Winter 1979): 47-54.
"Appalachian Values/American Values. Part V. Conclusion. IX. Dick and Jane in the Mountains: Reassessing the Role of Schools in the Appalachian Region." Appalachian Heritage 7.1 (Winter 1979): 49-57.
"Appalachian Writers Read." Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine 9.1 (Spring 1992): 20-21.
"Appalachian Writing: A Region Awakening." Afterword. In A Gathering at the Forks. Eds. George Ella Lyon, Jim Wayne Miller, and Gurney Norman. Wise, VA: Vision Books, 1993. 416-21.
"At Last – A Cure for Video Blues." Mossy Creek Journal [Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City, TN], No. 9 (1985): 5 1-54.
"Autobiographical." In The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same by Jim Wayne Miller. Frankfort, KY: The Whippoorwill Press, 1971. n.p.
"The Ballad in the Street: A Response to Ronald Pugh." Southern Folklore 50.3 (1993): 257-67.
"Beaucoons of Words." New York Times Magazine 13 January 1985: 9-10.
"The Best of Ninety." Pegasus [Kentucky State Poetry Society] 9.1 (Spring 1979): 7-9.
"Books for Adolescents" (interview with Patricia P. Kelly]. Journal of Reading 34.8 (May 1991): 666-69.
"The Brier Is Profiled in a Documentary Film." Cumberlands 15.3 (Fall-Winter 1978): 3. [A prose piece, not a prose poem, but perhaps more fiction than essay. It appears as one of "Two Brier Pieces" on pp. 2-3 (the other is a poem) in this issue.]
"The Brier Writes a Letter to His Cousin." In A Gathering at the Forks. Eds. George Ella Lyon, Jim Wayne Miller, and Gurney Norman. Wise, VA: Vision Books, 1993. 262-64.
"A Busy Multitude’: Work in American Life and Literature." In The Examined Life: Family-Community-Work in American Literature. Boone: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1989. 60-75.
"Collectors/Collecting." Plainsong 4.2 (Winter 1983): 45-46.
"Coming to Supper, Talking to the Children" (Southern Appalachian Writers and Their Communities). Appalachian Heritage 22.2 (Spring 1994): 18-26.
"A Cosmopolitan Regionalism." Border States: Journal of the Kentucky¬Tennessee American Studies Association 8 (1991): 1-6.
"Counting the Sums," Appalachian Journal 11.4 (Summer 1984): 424-27.
"Culture Shock." Kentucky Libraries 45.2 (Spring 1981): 16-20.
"Daring to Look in the Well’: A Conversation" [James Still and Jim Wayne Miller]. Iron Mountain Review [James Still Issue] 2.1 (Summer 1984): 3-10.
"Did You Come to Borry Fire or Do You Aim to Write a Big Lie-Tale about Us?" [Louisville] Courier-Journal Magazine 14 March 1982: 14-19.
"Don’t Judge the Speaker by Chatter." Houston Chronicle 10 December 1989: 4, 22.
"Emil Lerperger." In The Figure of Fulfillment, translated by Jim Wayne Miller. Owensboro, KY: Green River Press, 1975. 90-92.
"English Teachers: Education’s Shock Troops." [Louisville] Courier-Journal 5 January 1986: D3.
"An Exchange of Letters: Frank Steele and Jim Wayne Miller." Plainsong 2 (Spring 1989): 43-46.
"A Felt Linkage." Mountain Review 3 (May 1977): 14-17. Rpt. In Appalachian Heritage 5.3 (Summer 1977): 45-49; rpt. in Sacred Ground:Writings about Home. Ed. Barbara Bonner. Minneapolis: Milkweed, 1996. 68-75.
"Foreword." In Kentucky Album: Farm Security Administration Photographs, 1935-1943. Eds. Beverly W. Brannan and David Horvath, Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1986. vii-x. "Four Short Ones." Green River Review 7 (1976): 63-64.
"From Bluegrass to Rhododendron: Journeys Through Literary Kentucky." In Language of the Land: Journeys into Literary America. A Library of Congress Exhibition publication, 1994.
"From Oats to Grits, Mutton to Pork: North British Folkways in Southern Appalachia." Afterword. In Savory Memories. Ed. L. Elisabeth Beattie. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1998. 153-66.
"The Frontier Experience." In These Are Our Voices: The Story of Oak Ridge 1942-1970. Ed. James Overholt. Oak Ridge, TN: Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge, 1987. 1-8.
"The Gift Outright: W-Hollow." In Jesse Stuart: Essays on His Work. Eds. J.R. LeMaster and Mary Washington Clarke. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1977. 103-16.
"Growing Up Victorian." [Louisville] Courier-Journal Magazine 24 April 1983: 26-30.
"A Heart Leafed with Words Like a Tree: The Poetry of George Ella Lyon." Iron Mountain Review [George Ella Lyon Issue] 10 (Summer 1994): 6-8.
"Helping People Want to Read." Kentucky Journal 1.7 (October 1989): 11.
"His Last Fool Notion." Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine 9.1 (Spring 1992): 8-9.
"Huey, the Engineer" [an introduction to Jesse Stuart’s story]. In Stuart’s A Ride with Huey the Engineer. Eds. James M. Gifford, Jerry A. Herndon, and Jim Wayne Miller. Ashland, KY: Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1988. 69-79. [Miller alone does the essay listed here.]
"I Have a Place." In Sense of Place in Appalachia. Ed. S. Mont Whitson. Morehead, KY: Office of Regional Development Services, Morehead State University, 1988. 8 1-99.
"I Sit Accused." High Roads Folio (Spring 1983): 73-76.
"Impounded." In Laughter in Appalachia: A Festival of Southern Mountain Humor. Eds. Loyal Jones and Billy Edd Wheeler. Little Rock: August House, 1987. 139.41.
"An Interview: In Quest of the Brier" [with Loyal Jones]. Iron Mountain Review 4.2 (Spring 1988): 13-2 1.
"An Interview with Jim Wayne Miller" [with J.W. Williamson]. Appalachian Journal 6.3 (Spring 1979): 207-25.
"Introduction." In The Appalachian Experience: Proceedings of the 6th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference. Eds. Barry M. Buxton, Malinda L. Crutchfield, William E. Lightfoot, Jacqueline P. Stewart. Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1983. vii-ix.
"Introduction." In Our Separate Days by Sharyn McCrumb and Mona Walton Helper. Blacksburg, VA: Rowan Mountain Press, 1989. xi-xiii.
"Introduction." Pikeville Review [1994]: 5-7.
"Introduction." In Songs of a Mountain Plowman by Jesse Stuart. Ed. Jim Wayne Miller. Ashland, KY: Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1986. v-xxx.
"Introduction." In Southern Mountain Speech by Cratis D. Williams. Eds. Jim Wayne Miller and Loyal Jones. Berea: Berea College Press, 1992. ix-xvii.
"Introduction." In The Wolfpen Poems by James Still. Berea, KY: Berea College Press, 1986. ix-xxiii.
"James Still." In Critical Survey of Poetry: English Language Series. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Vol. 7. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1982. 2759-66.
"James Still: A Good Writer, a Good Man." The Mountain Spirit 7.5 (September-October 1987): 4-8.
"James Still: Happy Man on Troublesome." Back Home in Kentucky 9.4 (July. August 1986): 10-11.
"Jesse Stuart." In Research Guide to Biography and Criticism. Ed. Walton Beacham. Washington, D.C.: Research Publishing, 1985. 1135-38.v
"Jesse Stuart: The Life of the Poet, the Poetic Life." Appalachian Heritage 15.1 (Winter 1987): 39-47.
"Jesse Stuart: A Literary Profile." In Jesse Stuart, the Man & His Books. Eds. Jerry A. Herndon and George Brosi. Ashland, KY: Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1988. 121-39.
"Jesse Stuart’s ‘Great Thought’: Dominant Theme and Central Metaphor in His Poetry and Prose." Virginia English Bulletin 38.2 (Fall 1988): 52-57.
"Jim Dandy: James Still at Eighty." Appalachian Heritage 14.4 (Fall 1986): 8-20.
"Jim Wayne Miller." Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Vol. 15. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1992. 273-93.
"Jim Wayne Miller" [interview with Ron Larson]. Appalachian Heritage 11.3 (Summer 1983): 48-54.
"Jim Wayne Miller" [interview with L. Elisabeth Beattie]. In Conversations with Kentucky Writers. Ed. L. Elisabeth Beattie. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1996. 241-61.
"Katherine Anne Porter." High Roads Folio 11 (Spring 1986): 63-68.
"Kentucky Poetry: A Notebook." Pegasus 3.1 (Spring 1973): 26-28.
"The Kentucky (Re) Cycle." Appalachian Heritage 21.2 (Spring 1993): 59-66.
"Labels on the Mind." [Louisville] Courier-Journal 16 May 1982: D3.
"Lambs and Wolves." Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor 9.1 (Spring & Summer 1986): 48-53.
"The Last Bargain Left: the Humanities in the 1980’s." The Nebraska Humanist 5 (Fall 1982/Spring 1983): 13-2 1.
"A Letter on Poetry from Jim Wayne Miller." Kentucky Poetry Review [Bellarmine College] 18.2-10 (1983): 54-61.
"A Life of Fiction." [Louisville] Courier-Journal Magazine 13 May 1984: 23-2 7.
"Living into the Land." Hemlocks and Balsams [Lees.McRae College, Banner Elk, NC] 9 (March 1989): 59-73.
"Long Long Ago: A Romantic History of Catchup County." Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor 6.2 (Fall & Winter 1983): 61.64.
"Madly to Learn: James Still, the Teacher." In From the Fort to the Future: Educating the Children of Kentucky. Eds. Edwina Ann Doyle, Ruby Layson, and Anne Armstrong Thompson. Lexington: Kentucky Images, 1987. 23 1-43.
"Members of Each Other’: Community in American Life and Literature." In The Examined Life: Family-Community- Work in American Literature. Boone: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1989. 30-49.
"A Mirror for Appalachia." In Voices from the Hills: Selected Readings of Southern Appalachia. Eds. Robert J. Higgs and Ambrose N. Manning. New York: Ungar, 1975. 447-59.
"Monkeying Around with Maps." High Roads Folio (1988): 41-47.
"More on Appalachian Literature: Letter to the Editor." Appalachian Journal 4.2 (Autumn 1977): 98-99.
"A Mountain Still." [Louisville] Courier-Journal Magazine 12 July 1986: 18-24.
"Names, Names, Names." The Uncommon Reader (Winter 1988): 2 1-22.
"The Nature of the Creative Process." Bulletin of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Kentucky Philological Association, Murray State University (1984): 7-16.
"Natural Facility, Acquired Difficulty." The Asheville Review (Autumn 1995): 58-59.
"The New Ethnicity." The Center Magazine 7.5 (September/October 1974): 78-79.
"New Generation of Savages Sighted in West Virginia." Appalachian Heritage 16.4 (Fall 1988): 28-33.
"News That Stays News: Popular Culture and Cultural Permanence." Kentucky Review 6 (Fall/Winter 1986): 58-72.
"The Next Best Thing: Kudzu." High Roads Folio 14 (Spring 1989): 53-56.
"Nostalgia for the Future." Kentucky Review 8.2 (Summer 1988): 18-39. Rpt. in revised form in Appalachia Inside Out. Eds. Robert J. Higgs, Ambrose N. Manning, and Jim Wayne Miller. Vol. 2. Knoxville: U of Tennessee Press, 1995. 734-39.
"Note on Skosh." Comments on Etymology 18.4 (January 1989): 3-4.
"A Note to the Student." In I Have a Place. Ed. Jim Wayne Miller. Pippa Passes, KY: Alice Lloyd College, 1981. ix-x.
"A Note to the Teacher." In I Have a Place. Ed. Jim Wayne Miller. Pippa Passes, KY: Alice Lloyd College, 1981. 191-94.
"Of Mr. Ward & Mrs. Dixon & Miss Belle & Chief." Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine 10.1 (Spring 1993): 8-15.
"Old Wine in New Bottles" [interview with Kenny Woodhull]. Mossy Creek Journal, No. 9 (1985): 13-19.
"The Oldest Unit in the World’: The Family in American Life and Literature." In The Examined Life: Family-Community-Work in American Literature. Boone: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1989. 2-15.
"Oral History." Iron Mountain Review [Jim Wayne Miller Issue] 4.2 (Spring 1988): 6-7.
"Over the Wall: Breaking Out of Misconceptions about Standard English and Dialects." Kentucky Review 11.2 (Spring 1992): 20-32.
"A People Waking Up: Appalachian Literature Since 1960." In The Cratis Williams Symposium Proceedings. Boone: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1990. 47-76.
"Poetry in Kentucky: A Notebook." Pegasus 2.2 (Summer 1972): 27-3 1.
"A Post-Agrarian Regionalism for Appalachia." Appalachian Heritage 8.2 (Spring 1980): 58-71.
"Preface." In The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same by Jim Wayne Miller. Frankfort, KY: Whipporwill Press, 1971.
"Preface." In Old Wounds, New Words. Eds. Bob Henry Baber, George Ella Lyon, and Gurney Norman. Ashland, KY: Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1994.
"Reading, Writing, Region." Journal of Kentucky Studies 1.1 (1984): 85-99. Reading, Writing, Region: A Checklist, Purchase Guide and Directory for School and Community Libraries in Appalachia. Boone: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1984.
"Reading, Writing, Region: Notes from Southern Appalachia, an American Periphery." Thinker Review [Univ. of Louisville] April 1992: 119-34. Rpt. in Journal of Kentucky Studies 1.1 (1984): 85-99. [Essay appears to combine material published previously under similar titles)
"A Regionalism for Appalachia." Mountain Life and Work 48.1 (January 1972): 20-22.
"Regions, Folk Life, and Literary Criticism." Appalachian Journal 7.3 (Spring 1980): 180-87.
"A Renascence within a Renascence." Mossy Creek Reader, No. 6 (Spring 1997): 3-13.
"Report from the Balkans." Institute for Appalachian Affairs 1.1 (Spring 1979): 7-9.
"Report to the Public Service Committee." Hemlocks and Balsams 4 (19~3):18-20. (A prose poem)
Review of Appalachia and America by Allen Batteau. Park City Daily News [Bowling Green, KY] (11 September 1983): 11C.
Review of Appalachian Literature and Music. Ed. George Brosi. Daily Independent [Ashland, KY] (20 December 1981): 43.
Review of Assorted Life Savers & Poems from the Mountains by Bob Henry Baber. Mountain Review 4.2 (September 1978): 44.
Review of Divine Right’s Trip by Gurney Norman. [Louisville, KY] Courier-Journal (30 July 1972): E7.
Review of Eyes of the Mole by Jane Stuart. Kentucky Folklore Record 15 (January-March 1969): 26-27.
Review of First Blood by David Morrell. [Louisville, KY] Courier-Journal (21 May 1972): F3.
Review of First and Last Words by Fred Chappell. Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine 3 (Fall 1989): 61.
Review of Going Ahead, Looking Back by Rodney Jones. Appalachian Journal 8.1 (Autumn 1980): 72-75.
Review of Groundwork by Robert Morgan. Magill’s Literary Annual 1980. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1980. Vol. 1. 388-90.
Review of Midsummer by Derek Walcott. Magill’s Literary Annual 1985. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press Vol. 2, 609-13.
Review of Mountain Passage & Other Stories by Carry Barker. Appalachian Heritage 15.2 (Spring 1987): 87-89.
Review of Only the Dreamer Can Change the Dream: Selected Poems by John Logan. Magill’s Literary Annual 1983. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1983. Vol. 2. 599-603.
Review of Out in the Country, Back Home by Jeff Daniel Marion. Mountain Review 3.4 (February 1978): 40-41.
Review of PM/AM: New and Selected Poems by Linda Pastan. Magill’s Literary Annual 1983. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1983. Vol. 2. 603-07.
Review of Periods of Lucidity by Joseph Barrett. Mountain Review 4.4 (April 1979): 34-35.
Review of Prize Stories, 1973: The 0. Henry Awards. Ed. William Abrahams. [Louisville, KY] Courier-Journal (20 May 1973): E7.
Review of Ripening by Richard Hague. Mountain Life & Work 60.5 (May/June 1984): 29.
Review of Rural Route by R.T. Smith. Appalachian Journal 9.4 (Summer 1982): 326-28.
Review of A Sexual Tour of the Deep South by Rosemary Daniell. Green River Review 7.2 (1976): 116-19.
Review of Sometimes a Shining Moment: The Foxfire Experience, Twenty Years of Teaching in a High School Classroom by Eliot Wigginton. Georgia Historical Quarterly 70.4 (Winter 1986): 795.97.
Review of Theirs Be The Power: The Moguls of Eastern Kentucky by Harry M. Caudill. Park City Daily News [Bowling Green, KY] (27 November 1983): 13B.
Review of Then & Now: The Personal Past in the Poetry of Robert Penn Warren by Floyd C. Watkins. The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 81.4 (Autumn 1983): 432-34.
Review of Time is an Eightball: Poems from the Juvenile Home & the Penitentiary of New Mexico by Bob Henry Baber. Mountain Life & Work 60.5 (May/June 1984): 30.
Review of The View from Plum Lick by David Dick. In Special Issue of Pikeville Review on Kentucky Writing [1994]: 86~87.
Review of Waking Their Neighbors Up: The Nashville Agrarians Rediscovered by Thomas Daniel Young. Park City Daily News [Bowling Green, KY] (20 June 1982): 11C.
Review of The Wild Birds by Wendell Berry. Appalachian Mountain Books 2.2 (1986): 6-7.
Review of Who Owns Appalachia? Landownership and Its Impact by the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force. Park City Daily News [Bowling Green, KY] (11 September 1983): 11C.
Review of Wry Wine by John Foster West. Mountain Review 4.4 (April 1979): 36-37.
"A Rock in the Stream: A Conversation with Jim Wayne Miller" [interview with Thomas Rain Crowe]. The Arts Journal 14.11 (August 1989): 10-13.
"Round and Round with Kahil Gibran." Jefferson Review, No. 1 (Fall 1987): 5-10. Rpt. in Round and Round with Kahil Gibran. Introduction by Sharyn McCrumb. Blacksburg, VA: Rowan Mountain Press, 1990.
Sideswipes (satirical essays). Big Timber, MT: Seven Buffaloes Press, 1986.
"Some Bringer of That Joy." Pegasus 10.3 & 4 (Fall/Winter 1980): 17-19.
"Something Out of Place." In Laughter in Appalachia: A Festival of Southern Mountain Humor. Eds. Loyal Jones and Billy Edd Wheeler. Little Rock: August House, 1987. 138-39.
"Southern Appalachia: American Borderland with a Triple History." Virginia English Bulletin 38.2 (Fall 1988): 2.14.
"Southern Appalachia: American Periphery." Hemlocks and Balsams 7 (1986-87): 1.6. Rpt. in revised form in The Iron Mountain Review 4.2 (Spring 1988): 12.
"Stark Young, Chekhov and the Method of Indirect Action." Georgia Review 18.1 (Spring 1964): 98-115.
"Staying Calm After MTV." Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel 1.1 (1984): 27-30.
"Symposium: Vision Statement." Mississippi Review 19.3 (Spring 1991): 88-90.
"Tell Them I Said Something." Appalachian Journal 30.1 (Fall 2002), 60-63.
"Thomas Merton." Green River Review (May 1969): 5-7.
"Trendy Concern about Child Abuse." [Louisville] Courier-Journal 7 October 1984: D3.
"The Valley of Saying: Being a Poet in the Seventies." Green River Review 8.2 (1977): 97-102.
"The Vocabulary and Methods of Raising Burley Tobacco in Western North Carolina." North Carolina Folklore 17.1 (May 1969): 27-38.
"Where Did You Come From, Where Do You Go?" Mountain Review 2.4 (July 1976): 42, 48.
"William Anderson McCall." In Encyclopedia of East Tennessee. Eds. Jim Stokely and Jeff D. Johnson. Oak Ridge: Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge, 1981. 305.
"The Wolfpen Notebooks: James Still’s Record of Appalachian Life." Appalachian Heritage 19.3 (Summer 1991): 20-24.