Southern Poets
This is a broad request. I'm compiling a list of contemporary poets from the South or poets that have moved to the South and adopted it as a home.
Talk to me.
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ADAM CLAY
is the author of The Wash. His second book, A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions. He co-edits Typo Magazine and lives in Michigan.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
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Maurice Manning, Kentucky
David Berman, Davis McCombs, and maybe Tyehimba Jess, but you'd better double check. And Nickole Brown.
CW
Myself, Gregory Luce, from Texas and residing in DC. No book, but several magazine pubs.
Natasha Trethewey, Karen Head, David Bottoms, Tania Rochelle, Alice Lovelace, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Beth Ann Fennelly, Cherryl Floyd-Miller, Chelsea Rathburn, Kevin Young, Mike Dockins, Collin Kelley (that's me), Ed Madden, Kodac Harrison, Jilly Dybka.
Little ol' me...Texas.
For more information, Google the name or search Barnesandnoble.com, Amazon.com, etc. (Don't forget the 'B') :-)
Hi, I'm Helen Losse Poetry Editor of the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. Go to http://www.deadmule.com/ and look under Poets and in the archives for lots of southern poets.
chris tonelli just relocated to raliegh, nc. he also went to high school, college, and his first round of grad school there.
jon leon and tom lisk are also in raleigh.
ken rumble is in greensboro, nc, and brian howe is in i think richmond, va
sam starkweather grew up in pittsboro, nc.
that's all i can think of right now.
best,
justin
http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/382
Poetry map.
This is great. Thanks so much, folks. Truly--
David P. Ayers, Atlanta
http://dummy.rentedroom.com/
Claudia Emerson, Ron Smith, Cathryn Hankla, Ron Rash, Jane Mead *though she's in Calif right now, I think, Bob Hicok, Cathy Smith Bowers, Kelly Cherry, Elizabeth Seydel Morgan, T.R. Hummer, Shann Palmer and oh so many more-
James Kimbrell, Stacey Lynn Brown, Erin Belieu, Beth Ann Fennelly.
I'm an Eastern Tennessee girl. What's your list for?
hello. me = troylloyd
i'm 1hr. north of Atlanta, i don't drink moonshine but i do whoop 'n holler!
my blog =
wrdwthnwrd
see also, Laura Carter :
post-dérives
(she's currently revamping her blog, moving back from wordpress)
& see also, the Atlanta Poets Group, they've been highly active for around 15 years & have kept poetics interesting in Atlanta:
A P G
addtnl note:
i forgot to say that i post most of my poems in the commmentstream
-- i'm glad i can finally say with confidence " i'm a poet!", am i a poet?
Hank Lazer, Buck Downs, Abraham Smith, Tim Earley, Bonnie Emerick, Carolyn Guinzio, Timothy Van Dyke, Mitch Taylor, Marvin Petrucci, Bill Evans, Justin Elwood, Michael Heffernan, J.E. Pitts, Jake Adam York, Melanie Hubbard and does TX count? I hope not.
Chris Vitiello, Patrick Herron, Alan May, Jake Berry, Thomas Rabbitt, Paul Guest, Robin Behn, Jillian Weise, Lara Glenum, Ken Rumble drives in the NASCAR series, David Need, Joseph Donahue, Ted Pope, Terrance Hayes, the Lord Jesus, but of all these, Tim Earley is the very, very best.
Fred Chappell, Michael Chitwood, Ron Rash, R.H.W. Dillard, Kay Byer, Julie Suk, Dannye Romaine Powell, Jeanne Larson, Henry Taylor, Julia Johnson, (I think we can count) Jo McDougall,
Betty Adcock, James Applewhite, Dave Smith. . .in addition to the already named. . .and there are dozens more.
Kelly Cherry
And don't miss Judson Mitchum.
Kelly Cherry
Carl Martin.
Tony Tost,Alyssa Wolf
Blake Butler, Laura Carter, Mike Dockins, Travis Wayne Denton, Katie Chaple, Sara Bartlett, Jamie Iredell, Austin Segrest, Beth Gylys, Billy Reynolds, Alice Friman, Joseph Milford. Those are the ones that come to mind immediately.
Jim Simmerman (recently deceased), Andrew Glaze, Alan May, Jim Murphy, T. Crunk.
Roy Jacobstein, Alex Grant, Mark Smith-Soto
Brian Barker:
https://www.tupelopress.org/books2ssl.shtml#animal
Brian Brown of Fitzgerald GA. No book, but publishing lots in journals. Recent ones are Town Creek Poetry, Keyhole, Santa Clara Review, Roanoke Review, Vain, Caveat Lector, Velvet Mafia, SWELL, and Powhatan Review.
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