We Are a Choir
The South’s greatest poets assemble to sing the truths of our region for National Poetry Month.
Poetry
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.
By Danita Dodson /
Come Back to Me
Some of us mourn quietly. Some of us howl like wounded animals.
By Susan Swartwout /
We’re Just Here
Two poems steeped in prismatic New Orleans imagery, creeping up from memories of a complex past.
By Richard Boada /
Lover
Love is one form of salvation. Louisville’s unsung master of the short narrative poem guides us through a scene showing just that.
By Robert L. Penick /
Sacred Bones
“Hold tight to history,” Appalachian poet E.J. Wade writes, so we might be awakened.