Join author Robert Gipe in conversation with Pauletta Hansel about his latest book, Pop: An Illustrated Novel

Pop is the third and final novel in Robert Gipe’s renowned Canard County series, Pop follows three generations of a family as they reckon with the changing landscape of Appalachia during the Trump era.

Robert Gipe lives and works in Harlan County, Kentucky. Pop is his third Ohio University Press novel. His first, Trampoline, won the 2016 Weatherford Award for Appalachian novel of the year. His second novel, Weedeater, was a Weatherford finalist. For the past thirty years he has worked in arts-based organizing and is the founding coproducer of the Higher Ground community performance series. He has contributed to numerous journals and anthologies, is a playwright, and is currently a script consultant on a forthcoming television show based on Beth Macy’s Dopesick. Gipe spoke at The Mercantile Library as part of the Appalachian Studies Association Conference in April 2018.

Pauletta Hansel’s eighth poetry collection is Friend, epistolary poems written in the early days of the pandemic; others include Coal Town Photograph and Palindrome, winner of the 2017 Weatherford Award for best Appalachian poetry. Her writing has been featured in Oxford American, Rattle, Appalachian Journal, Still: The Journaland New Verse News, among others. Pauletta was Cincinnati’s first Poet Laureate (2016-2018), and is past managing editor of Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, the journal of the Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative. Hansel has spoken at The Mercantile Library multiple times, and even volunteered as a bartender.

This program is free and open to the public. Copies of Pop can be ordered online via Joseph-Beth Cincinnati HERE