Chapter 16
A Community of Tennessee Writers, Readers & Passersby

Bess Cooley

“There Is a Snake”

Book Excerpt: Florence

Bess Cooley is a winner of The Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, and her work has also appeared in Prairie Schooner, Western Humanities Review, and Verse Daily, among other publications. She is the co-founding editor of Peatsmoke Journal and teaches at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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