by Cathy Smith Bowers
storySouth is pleased to present six poems by Cathy Smith Bowers reprinted from her books Traveling in Time of Danger (Iris Press, 1999) and A Book of Minutes (Iris Press, 2004). We also present in this issue An Interview with...
by Julie Funderburk
Cathy Smith Bowers is author of three poetry collections, including The Love That Ended Yesterday in Texas, which was the first winner of the Texas Tech University Press Poetry Award Series, subsequently named for Walt McDonald. Her other books...
by Christine Garren
storySouth is pleased to present five new poems by Christine Garren: “Message 41,” “Piñata,” “The Woven Message,” “The Given Message,” and “The Jeweled Message.” We also present in this issue An Interview with Christine Garren by associate poetry editor Terry...
by Terry Kennedy
Christine Garren is the author of the poetry collections Afterworld and Among the Monarchs. Her latest collection is The Piercing, published in 2006 in the Southern Messenger Poets series from Louisiana State University Press. A Los Angeles Times Book Award...
by Barbara Hamby
storySouth is pleased to present two new poems by Barbara Hamby, “Venus and Dogberry, A Match Made in New Jersey” and “Waltz, Swing, Cha-cha-cha,” as well as five poems reprinted from her two most recent books. There is also...
by Dan Albergotti
Barbara Hamby is the author of Delirium (University of North Texas Press, 1995), The Alphabet of Desire (New York University Press, 1999), and Babel (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004). She won the Kate Tufts Award for Delirium, and the...
by Rodney Jones
Five Poems from Salvation Blues: The Work of Poets, On the Bearing of Waitresses, The Bridge, Ground Sense, A Defense of Poetry Selected by Patrick Phillips and Billy Reynolds, who offer an interview with the poet. THE WORK OF POETS...
by Patrick Phillips and Billy Reynolds
“THE STRUCTURE OF OPPOSITION”: THE POETRY OF RODNEY JONES Rodney Jones, born in Alabama, is a professor of English at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He has published eight books of poetry, including Salvation Blues (Houghton Mifflin, 2006). Among his...
by Patrick Phillips
Five poems from Chattahoochee: "My Lovely Assistant," "The Chimney," "My Father," "Playing Tennis," "A Valediction," "Chattahoochee" Selected by Billy Reynolds, with an interview with the poet. MY LOVELY ASSISTANT After the episode of That’s Incredible! in which a whole family...
by Billy Reynolds
He stood between me and that pain —Patrick Phillips, “My Lovely Assistant” (2003) The poet Patrick Phillips was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1970. He was raised in Cumming, Georgia. He graduated with a B.A. from Tufts University in 1992,...
by Tara Powell
Southern women who write poems don’t corner a niche market the way southern women’s fiction has done, and most anthologies of southern poetry continue to be dominated by men....
by Kathryn Stripling Byer
Soon I’d learn the words for what I couldn’t find
in my closet: Bass weejuns, madras, and Villager.
As for the name of that scent mingling
now with aroma of barbecue served on the porch...
by Wendy Carlisle
On the left, the Atchafalaya, that black, that burnt inside,
silent as a pot. Down there, our lips equal silt and common bliss.
Down there, we carry our graves, folded
in our pockets, a hard-cardboard hunger, a box and shards.
by Kate Daniels
This is what it was like to grow up
down there, then. A pretty place
but desolate. The signs that are supposed
to tell you what to do, or be, or buy
are faded to the point of inarticulation....
by Cathryn Hankla
The possibility of saying something becomes more difficult.
The urgency
Of saying nothing rings the ears.
