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For over half a century, Cold Mountain Review has provided a home for writing that explores the interplay of the social and ecological, of what it means to live inside a human skin alongside so many others, human and nonhuman alike. This retrospective issue, largely of poetry, includes poems ranging from the 1970s, the first decade of CMR’s founding, to today and three new poems by one of the journal’s founders, R.T. Smith.

Kathryn Kirkpatrick is Professor of English at Appalachian State University where she co-directs the Animal Studies minor. She is the author of eight collections of poetry, including The Fisher Queen: New & Selected Poems, which won the NC Literary & Historical Association’s Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Prize.