Dan Albergotti grew up in South Carolina. He directs the creative writing program at Coastal Carolina University and is the editor of Waccamaw. His first collection of poems, The Boatloads, won the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize.

• Shadows Along the Waccamaw, published 24 November 2008.
Five poems recorded in and around Conway, South Carolina. Includes an interview with Natasha Trethewey.

Elizabeth Alexander was born in New York City and raised in Washington, D.C. She has published several books of poems, including American Sublime, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. In 2008, her "Praise Song for the Day" was the inaugural poem for President Barack Obama.

• Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander, published 10 December 2009. Recorded in New Haven, Connecticut.

Darnell Arnoult was born in Martinsville, Virginia, and has lived in Tennessee and North Carolina. Her first book of poems, What Travels With Us, was published in 2005.

• Work, published 22 June 2006.
Recorded at the Glencoe Mill in Glencoe, North Carolina.

Jericho Brown is from Shreveport, Louisiana, spent time living in New Orleans, and now teaches at the University of San Diego. Please, his first book, was published in 2009.

• Natasha Trethewey Interviews Jericho Brown, published 28 September 2009. Recorded in Decatur, Georgia.

Claudia Emerson was raised and lived in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. She won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Late Wife and was named Poet Laureate of Virginia in 2008. She is the Arrington Distinguished Chair in Poetry at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

• Insistent Traces, published 26 October 2009.
Five poems performed in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.

Born and raised in Milledgeville, Georgia, Sean Hill was awarded the Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University in 2007. He published his first book, Blood Ties & Brown Liquor, in 2008.

• The Morning with Many Tongues, published 27 February 2009.
Four poems performed in and around Milledgeville, Georgia. Includes an interview with Natasha Trethewey.

An Alabama native, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of The Gospel of Barbecue, Outlandish Blues, and Red Clay Suite.

• Tuscaloosa: Riversong, published 23 September 2005.
Filmed beside the Black Warrior River in Alabama. Also, a discussion of writing "Tuscaloosa."

The author of eight collections, Rodney Jones won the 2007 Kingsley Tufts Prize for Salvation Blues: 100 Poems, 1985-2005. He is Professor of English and Distinguished Scholar at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

• An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim, published 22 January 2009.
Four poems filmed in and around Falkville, Alabama. Includes an audio interview with Natasha Trethewey.

Patrick Phillips grew up in Forsyth County, Georgia, near Atlanta. He won the 2005 Kate Tufts Discovery Prize for his first book, Chattahoochee; his second book, Boy, was published in 2008.

• Watching the Surface for a Sign, published 14 April 2009.
Five poems performed in and around Cumming, Georgia, and Lake Lanier. Includes an interview with Natasha Trethewey.

Minnie Bruce Pratt is a native of Centreville, Alabama, and is the author of several books of poetry and essays, including The Dirt She Ate. Pratt is Professor of Women's Studies, Writing and Rhetoric at Syracuse University.

• No Place, published 27 July 2004.
A poem filmed on a bridge over the Cahaba River in Bibb County, Alabama.

North Carolina writer Ron Rash is the Parris Distinguished Professor in Appalachian Cultural Studies at Western Carolina University. He has published several books of poetry and fiction including Saints at the River.

• Saints at the River and Selected Poems, published 6 December 2007.
Three poems and an excerpt from the novel, Saints at the River, filmed near Cullowhee, North Carolina.

Natasha Trethewey is Professor of English and Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at Emory University. She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Native Guard.

• Elegy for the Native Guards, published 10 June 2005.
A poem filmed on Ship Island, Mississippi.
• Theories of Time and Space, published 20 June 2005.
A poem filmed around Gulfport, Mississippi.

Raised near Gadsden in northeast Alabama, Jake Adam York is Associate Professor of English and director of the creative writing program at the University of Colorado, Denver. He is the author of Murder Ballads and A Murmuration of Starlings.

• A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama, published 7 March 2008.
Four poems performed in and near Gadsden, Alabama. Includes an interview with Natasha Trethewey.
• In the Queen City: A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library, published 1 April 2008. Includes seven poems.