The Southern poetry anthology

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WILLIAM WRIGHT, author of four books of poetry and series editor of The Southern Poetry Anthology, lives in Marietta, Georgia. PAUL RUFFIN is the author or editor of over thirty books.

He lives in Willis, Texas. NICK LANTZ, author of three poetry collections, teaches poetry at Sam Houston State University and lives in Huntsville, Texas.5/5(2).

Poem by poem, the pages of The Southern Anthology, Volume IV: Louisiana demonstrate the variety and resiliency of a state that’s overcome wars, hurricanes, and floods to /5. The second edition of The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume II: Mississippi, seeks to continue the aspiration of the series: to take a snapshot of contemporary poetry in the American South and to observe how the “sense of place” manifests itself in the work of native poets or those just passing through.

Featured in this edition, poets Natasha Trethewey, Gordon Weaver, Angela Ball, Paul Ruffin, Julia 5/5(1). The poetry of Appalachia sings in all those familiar ways, but also in the music of the particular poems collected in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume III: Southern Appalachia.

This anthology of contemporary poetry arrives from one of America’s most vibrant literary communities, an area with a rich storytelling history and beautiful natural landscape, the often misunderstood Appalachian South.5/5(3). Edited by William Wright and Paul Ruffin, The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume V: Georgia brings together over one hundred of Georgia’s poets, including David Bottoms, Natasha Trethewey, Leon Stokesbury, Thomas Lux, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Alice Friman, Judson Mitcham, and Stephen Corey, as well as myriad other luminous voices.

Conceived by Series Editor William Wright inThe Southern Poetry Anthology is a multivolume project celebrating established and emerging poets of the American South.5/5(1). The Southern Poetry Anthology: Volume I: South Carolina is the first in a series of poetry anthologies that will focus on contemporary poetry of the American South, region by region.

In this inaugural collection, editors William Wright and Stephen Gardner have collected and compiled the work /5(8). What is clear is that much of the best poetry of our time is being written in or about the Southern mountains, with unprecedented diversity, artistry, freshness, and humanity.

Here is a poetry of place and people, of history, sometimes sad, often comic, a poetry of haunting voices, vision, music and story/5. About The Southern Poetry Anthology Publications Volume I: South Carolina Volume II: Mississippi Volume III: Contemporary Appalachia Volume IV: Louisiana Volume V: Georgia Volume VI: Tennessee About the Editors.

WILLIAM WRIGHT, author of four books of poetry and series editor of The Southern Poetry Anthology, lives in Marietta, Georgia. PAUL RUFFIN is the author or editor of over thirty books. He lives in Willis, Texas.

NICK LANTZ, author of three poetry collections, teaches poetry at Sam Houston State University and lives in Huntsville, Texas. The poems in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VI: Tennessee engage the storied histories, diverse cultures, and vibrant rural and urban landscapes of the region.

Among the more than poets represented are Pulitzer and Bollingen Prize-winner Charles Wright, Brittingham Award-winner Lynn Powell, and Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize-winners Rick Hilles and Arthur Smith. The poetry of Appalachia sings in all those familiar ways, but also in the music of the particular poems collected in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume III: Southern Appalachia.

This anthology of contemporary poetry arrives from one of America’s most vibrant literary communities, an area with a rich storytelling history and beautiful natural landscape, the often misunderstood. Conceived by Series Editor William Wright inThe Southern Poetry Anthology is a multivolume project celebrating established and emerging poets of the American South.

Inspired by single-volume anthologies such as Leon Stokesbury’s The /5. Conceived by Series Editor William Wright inThe Southern Poetry Anthology is a projected twelve-to-sixteen volume project celebrating established and emerging poets of the American South, published by Texas Review Press.

Conceived by Series Editor William Wright inThe Southern Poetry Anthology is a multivolume project celebrating established and emerging poets of the American South. Stephen Gardner (), Volume Editor of the first and second volumes of The Southern Poetry Anthology, a native of Columbia, South Carolina, received his B.A.

and M.A. in English from The University of South Carolina, where he studied creative writing with George Garrett and Ennis earned the Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing from Oklahoma State University, where, under the. Editors William Wright and Paul Ruffin now seek submissions for the eighth in our series, The Southern Poetry Anthology, featuring Texas poets.

The anthology will be published by Texas Review Press. If you are a Texas native, or if you have lived in Texas for more than one year, please feel free to send up to five poems for ers:   The Southern Poetry Anthology Volume I: South Carolina is the first in a series of poetry anthologies that will focus on contemporary poetry of the American South, region by region.

In this inaugural collection, editors William Wright and Stephen Gardner have collected and compiled the work of seventy-six poets who claim—or have claimed sometime in their life—South Carolina as home Pages: William Wright is author of seven collections of poetry: four full-length books, including Tree Heresies (Mercer University Press, forthcoming), Night Field Anecdote (Louisiana Literature Press, ), Bledsoe (Texas Review Press, ), and Dark Orchard (Texas Review Press,winner of the Breakthrough Poetry /5.

Poetry for a Change; A National Poetry Day Anthology, illustrated by Chie Hosaka The theme of change threads through the 43 poems in this charmingly illustrated little book.

Edited by William Wright and Paul Ruffin, The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume V: Georgia brings together over one hundred of Georgia's poets, including David Bottoms, Natasha Trethewey, Leon Stokesbury, Thomas Lux, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Alice Friman, Judson Mitcham, and Stephen Corey.The Southern Poetry Anthology Volume II: Mississippi pp.

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Wright is the series editor of The Southern Poetry Anthology and founding editor of Town Creek Poetry. Paul Ruffin, Texas State University System Regents' Professor at Sam Houston State University, USA is the author of two novels, four collections of stories, four books of essays, and seven collections of poetry/5(8).