Bonnie Proudfoot was born a New Yorker: She worked as a taxi cab driver in college.
But she moved to Central Appalachia in her 20s, first to a homestead in West Virginia and later to Athens, Ohio.
Her new book of poetry, “Incomer,” explores what it was like to make the region her home through verse like this:
“Take a kid who grew up in a city, put her / next to a pond with a pole, and soon enough, / she will catch a fish and not know what to do / with it.”…