About the Book: The Last Beast We Revel In coalesces around love for one's romantic partner, family, community, and the natural world. As the Appalachian Mountains enter their most recent chapter of environmental catastrophes and abuses, the need to discover joy within the human and greater-than-human community is essential. Through these poems we travel with black bear, brook trout, the old tunnel mines, the carcasses of meth houses, and the sweetness of August tomatoes. These poems balance reverie, mourning, lust, and love while wading the rivers and meandering the deep hollows of Appalachia's enduring landscape.

About the Author: Noah Davis's first collection, Of This River, won the Wheelbarrow Emerging Poet Book Prize from Michigan State University's Center for Poetry, and his poems and prose have appeared in Southern Humanities Review, Best New Poets, The Christian Science Monitor, The Year's Best Sports Writing, North American Review, and others. His work has been awarded a Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellowship at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the 2018 Jean Ritchie Appalachian Literature Fellowship from Lincoln Memorial University. Davis earned an MFA from Indiana University and now lives with his wife, Nikea, in New England.

About the Author in Conversation: Corrie Williamson was born on a small farm in southwestern Virginia. She is the author of two previous books of poetry: The River Where You Forgot My Name, which was a 2019 Montana Book Award Honor Book, and Sweet Husk, which won the 2014 Perugia Press Prize and was a finalist for the 2015 Library of Virginia Poetry Award.
She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia, with a BA in Poetry and Anthropology, and her MFA in Poetry from the University of Arkansas. She has taught writing at the University of Arkansas, Helena College, and Carroll College, and worked as an educator in Yellowstone National Park. She was the recipient of the 2020 PEN Northwest/Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency, spending seven and a half months writing and living off-grid in a remote section of the Rogue River in southwest Oregon. Her poems have appeared in journals such as The Southern Review, Ecotone, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, AGNI, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and many others, as well as numerous anthologies. She lives in Montana.