Guiding Us Home
From Washington, D.C., three poems honoring ancestry and excavating history.
Poetry
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.
By Rachel Nix /
At the Corner of Rosa Parks and Jefferson Davis
Three poems from—and a compelling interview with—Alabama’s inimitable Jacqueline Allen Trimble.
By Jacqueline Allen Trimble /
From Limb to Blossoming Limb
As spring arrives, one of the South’s most prolific poets takes us from the celestial to the earthly and back again.
By KB Ballentine /
We Keep Their Echoes With Us
A Tennessee poet guides us into a spring ritual, an old house, dreams of where we’ve been, and dreams of where we’ll be.