August, 1959: Morning Service
...dead were listening. Published in Virginia Quarterly Review (Summer 2000). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 6 December 2007 © 2007 Ron Rash and Southern Spaces...
Three AM and the Stars Were Out
...in their wide pasture. Published in Quadrant Magazine (October 2004). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 6 December 2007 © 2007 Ron Rash and Southern Spaces...
Bunk Richardson
...weaker, all night long. Published in Murder Ballads (2005). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 7 March 2008 © 2008 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...
Off-Season
...you said I couldn’t be. Published in Off Season City Pipe: Work (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2005). Published: 14 October 2010 © 2010 Allison Hedge Coke and Southern Spaces...
Consolation
...of the bright, unfalling stars. "Consolation" first appeared in Blackbird and was collected in Murder Ballads (Elixir 2005) Published: 15 April 2010 © 2010 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...
Old Elementary
...released, and he was kept after, inside, in there, for punishment, in there for some small forgotten thing. Published: 26 October 2009 © 2009 Claudia Emerson and Southern Spaces...
Untitled Opening from Pinion: An Elegy
...I have come home for this. Published in Pinion: An Elegy (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002). Published: 26 October 2009 © 2009 Claudia Emerson and Southern Spaces...
Aftermath
...the blunt edge of a practiced tongue. Published in Late Wife (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005). Published: 26 October 2009 © 2009 Claudia Emerson and Southern Spaces...
Making History
...pull out spoon after spoon after spoon. Published in I Was the Jukebox (New York: W.W. Norton, 2010). Published: 22 September 2011 © 2011 Sandra Beasley and Southern Spaces...
Another Failed Poem About the Greeks
...somewhere a maiden rattled in her chains. Published in I Was the Jukebox (New York: W.W. Norton, 2010). Published: 22 September 2011 © 2011 Sandra Beasley and Southern Spaces...