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Tennessee Poems

She moved from the mountains of Germany’s Black Forest to the mountains of Tennessee. Her welcome there felt like divine intervention.

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The biggest Black star in country music knows his success puts a lot of responsibility in his lap. But he was raised right. He can handle it.

What he learned as a child in Mississippi left him unable to come out to his family—or even to himself—until he was thirty-one years old.

Four new poems by—and an in-depth conversation with—Kentucky’s Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.

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Every now and then, if the moon is just right, the old ones will assemble and take someone back with them.

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An author and playwright navigates her Southern roots and Jewish identity in a world that often saw them as contradictions.

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Tennessee Poems

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