Just the Right Amount of Sunflowers
Three dazzling new poems by Mississippian C.T. Salazar, and an interview on binaries, ecologies, and the mysteries of time.
Poetry
What It’s Like to Live Here
Veteran South Carolina poet Ray McManus, the winner of the 2023 Governor’s Award for the Arts, writes beautifully about rural life—from boar hogs to pickup trucks to the hunger that won’t go away.
By Ray McManus /
Revise Your Eyes
Junious “Jay” Ward, Charlotte’s inaugural Poet Laureate, serves up three new poems and talks about how his new post lets him “take the church to the people.”
By Junious “Jay” Ward /
The Secret Signal to Wake
Cumberland Gap poet Denton Loving talks about changes in Appalachian culture and offers four new poems that apply the wisdom of nature to the human predicament.
By Denton Loving /
Guiding Us Home
From Washington, D.C., three poems honoring ancestry and excavating history.
By Melanie Henderson /
A Monster Truck Passes the Poetry Reading
Let’s not get so cultured we’re blind, folks.
By John Davis Jr. /
The Space Dividing Us Must Be Destroyed
Four new poems by—and an in-depth conversation with—Kentucky’s Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.
By Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. /
Open at Last
Visionary in all weathers, Louisville’s Emma Aprile finds a way to carry hope through life’s balancing act.
By Emma Aprile /
A Bouffant Stacked Toward Heaven
Four new poems by—and an interview with— Marianne Worthington, author of “The Girl Singer”
By Marianne Worthington /
We Are a Choir
The South’s greatest poets assemble to sing the truths of our region for National Poetry Month.
By Andy Fogle /
Whatever We Never Planned
From North Alabama’s Rachel Nix come three poems about the names we carry, the waters we cross, and letting time do its thing.
