Book Excerpt: The Skin of Meaning
Keith Flynn is the award-winning author of six collections of poetry and an essay collection, The Rhythm Method, Razzmatazz and Memory. From 1984-1999, he was lyricist and lead singer for the nationally acclaimed rock band The Crystal Zoo, which was formed in Nashville and produced three albums. Flynn is founder and managing editor of Asheville Poetry Review.
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Book Excerpt: Year by Year
Lynne Sachs, a Memphis native, has made 35 films, and her work has screened at the New York Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Year by Year is her first published poetry collection. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Book Excerpt: Visiting Hours
Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum, a Nashville native, is the author of Ghost Gear and editor of Apocalypse Now: Poems & Prose from the End of Days. He’s the acquisitions editor for Upper Rubber Boot Books and the founder and editor of PoemoftheWeek.com and the Floodgate Poetry Series.
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Trauma runs throughout Tiana Clark’s I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood
The poems in Tiana Clark’s debut collection, I Can’t Talk About The Trees Without The Blood, propel us into encounters with traumas ancient and immediate, blurring any distinctions of time.
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Book Excerpt: Hothouse
Karyna McGlynn is the author of I Have to Go Back to 1994, Kill a Girl, and most recently Hothouse, which was a New York Times Editor’s Choice. Karyna is a professor of creative writing at Christian Brothers University in Memphis. She’s currently co-editing the anthology Clever Girl: Witty Poetry by Women.
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Book Excerpt: Mustard, Milk, and Gin
Megan Denton Ray received her M.F.A. from Purdue University, where she was awarded an Academy of American Poets prize. Her debut collection, Mustard, Milk, and Gin, is the winner of the 2019 New Southern Voices Poetry Prize, sponsored by Hub City Press. She currently lives and teaches in Chattanooga.
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