The Morning with Many Tongues
...the anthologies Blues Poems, Gathering Ground, The Ringing Ear, and Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. His first book, Blood Ties & Brown Liquor, was published by...
Country Music Scholar
...at Tulane University. His books include Country Music, U.S.A.; Southern Music/American Music; Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music; and Don't Get Above Your Raisin': Country Music and the...
Insistent Traces
...poem "Old Elementary." View poem text here. About Claudia Emerson Claudia Emerson won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Late Wife. Her books include Figure Studies, Pinion, and Pharoah,...
A Mess of Poke
...certain appeal for the urban palate. Take my friend Esther, who bought a well-illustrated book on fungi and became an expert identifier of edible mushrooms. She now scours her Chamblee,...
At Cornwall Furnace
...more. Promises of love and forevers mural its inside above constellations of beer cans and glass, ashes. The lid of sky's diameter remains the same. In water only yards away,...
In the Magic City
...iron, like stars that draw from the dark as they spin Maubilla and Horseshoe Bend the way Elvin works the cymbals into distant crowds. And when it ends...
Putting up Beans
...dirt wasps. Slightly rubbery, slightly sweet enough bushel baskets to put away winter hunger for about another year. I remember the first time I canned in the barns, tobacco barn...
Aftermath
...outside. I saw her in it. She reminded me of me— with her hair black and long as mine had been— as she moved in and then away from the...
Another Failed Poem About the Greeks
...and I made him hold my purse. On the way home he said We should do this again sometime though we both knew it would never happen since he was...
Sweep
...way things work down here, while I wait and the rain plinks on the rims of overturned tires, he and my father trade the names of the dead: Bill Farrell...