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Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet
Fifty-four monologues and dialogues, a remarkable distillation of rhythms and nuances from the region of the heart.
Liars, Thieves and Other Sinners on the Bench
“Haunting and funny, full of folk wisdom and unfl inching honesty.”—Publishers Weekly, on the work of Jo Carson “She is a quintessential community artist with a true ear for the way people talk and what they really mean to say. Her work has inspired innumerable young artists to take up work with their own communities.”—Linda Frye Burnham, Community Arts Network “Human experience is varied and astonishing,” notes Jo Carson, “and this is a taste.” A uniquely American writer and performer, Carson has spent fifteen years working with peoples’ stories in communities across the country, crafting more than thirty plays from the oral histories she has collected. In performance,...
Spider Speculations
“I’ve spent about 15 years plus some working with people’s stories in a series of communities in this country. I write plays from oral histories for those communities. Just finished my 30th. I’m watching people’s lives and communities literally change, sometimes drastically, for the work. Spider Speculations is the beginning of trying to understand the hows and whys of all the changes.”—Author Jo Carson Jo Carson lays bare her personal investigation into her own creative process after a spider bite on her back begins a series of life-altering events. Spider Speculations applies cutting edge mind-body science, quantum physics and ancient shamanistic techniques to describe how st...
Teller Tales
"All my work fits in my mouth," Jo Carson says. "I write performance material no matter what else the pieces get called, and whether they are for my voice or other characters' voices . . . they are first to be spoken aloud." Following an oral tradition that has strong roots in her native Tennessee, the author of Teller Tales invites the reader to participate in events in a way that no conventional history book can. Both stories in this book are set in East Tennessee in the mid-eighteenth century and share certain characters. The first narrative, "What Sweet Lips Can Do," recounts the story of the Overmountain Men and the battle of King's Mountain, a tide-turning battle in the American Revolu...
Celebrate Wildness
CELEBRATE WILDNESS presents the magic, lore and practices of Feraferia. Feraferia is an earth, Goddess and faerie oriented spirituality, whose name means "celebrate wildness." This second edition hardbound book, is smaller in size (11 x 8.5 in.) but longer, with added articles. On heavy black paper, it features over 100 color illustrations; most by Feraferia's founder, Fred Adams. Filmmaker Jo Carson, now the leader of Feraferia, writes the book from an insiders' point of view. Part One presents icons of earth spirituality, especially the "Kore" of ancient Greece. It explains Kore's role as a Daughter Goddess within the Divine Family. Kore embodies sensuality, caring, play and nature at its ...
Listen Here
“A comprehensive and unsurpassed anthology of women writers from Appalachia . . . Exceptional in diversity and scope.” —Southern Historian Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia is a landmark anthology that brings together the work of 105 Appalachian women writers, including Dorothy Allison, Harriette Simpson Arnow, Annie Dillard, Nikki Giovanni, Denise Giardina, Barbara Kingsolver, Jayne Anne Phillips, Janice Holt Giles, George Ella Lyon, Sharyn McCrumb, and Lee Smith. Editors Sandra L. Ballard and Patricia L. Hudson offer a diverse sampling of time periods and genres, established authors and emerging voices. From regional favorites to national bestsellers, this unprecedented gather...
Her Words
"A survey of Appalachian women poets includes the work of Maggie Anderson, Lisa Coffman, George Ella Lyon, Nikki Giovanni, Jo Carson, Lynn Powell, Barbara Smith, and other female poetic voices. (Poetry)" --
Appalachia Inside Out: Conflict and change
The two volumes of Appalachia Inside Out constitute the most comprehensive anthology of writings on Appalachia ever assembled. Representing the work of approximately two hundred authors.
Stateswomen
"Stateswomen celebrates the centennial of women serving as members of the Arkansas General Assembly. The book features concise biographies of all the women legislators who have served in the assembly to date, situating their political activity within the history of the expansion of the role of women in the public sphere"--
