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Poetry

Silent but Certain Agreement

A North Carolina poet fills her verses with memories and observations that flow from the present day back into the years passed and gone.

The Widow, the House, the Porch and the Stars

A Kentucky poet explores who we are, the places we inhabit and the skies that shimmer above us.

The Saw and the Sawdust

He restored an old mountain cabin, wrote a sonnet to an old man and fell asleep, missing the sounds of the whippoorwill.

Tennessee Poems

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

How to Pluck the Hell out of a Heart

No mother tongue is as rich as the Southern one. Our words are musical, and poetry expresses them with soul-shaking force. Annie Woodford celebrates the songs we say.

Seasons

When the bulldozers topple the trees and the owls and the field mice and the feral cats are gone, who will remember?

Change of Heart

Three verses that take us from the gorges of western North Carolina to that mess on the front porch.

Frank O’Hara Gets Dirty in Bull City

Imagine you plopped a crazy 1950s New York School poet down into a 21st century Saturday night in Durham. It’d be dirty, you know, in that good way.

Three Poems by Gary Grossman

A Georgia poet moves furiously up and down our hills, into our winter winds and through the baskets of various apples laid out at picking time.

Three Poems by KB Ballentine

The Tennessee poet offers us verses about light and dark, smoke and mist, and riptides and droplets.

Living With Ghosts

Regret, a Chattanooga poet argues, is like a junkyard.

“Georgia on My Mind” and Other Poems

Five Southern poems that smell like honeysuckle, mountain laurel, moss and tomatoes.