My Hummingbirds
by Kevin Chopson
I will write one thousand poems about hummingbirds.
I will take them to Japan and study origami.
Each poem will become a cut and folded replica
of a childhood memory.
Flashing, fitful, fanciful moments that I am …
Poetry | “Lyric” by Gina Raye Felts
Gina Raye Felts is a fourth-generation native Nashvillian and a 2009 graduate of Nashville State Community College with an Associate of Arts in Art. She works in various media including textiles, watercolor and, most recently, verse. She is a great …
Poetry | Dark Star
b…y Sebastian Jones
As I look outside my window
Towards the ceiling of the universe,
Away from Bones and Satchel
Who drag their oversized trash bags around town
like their past,
I stare southward at the Northern Star.
Big
Lydia Peelle | The Reason for Breathing
For Lydia Peelle, the South is a place where the past crowds the present. She is curious about the lives that came before. Who were the people that once lived in her house? What are the histories of people she …
Poetry | I Had a Dream
…
I Had a Dream
By Nevin Compton Trammell
I had a dream
that some force picked me up
and
put me down
in some new
and different town
that I had never seen before
with small shops
and church towers
Positively William Gay
“I think writers have to have a touchstone. The rural landscape is mine. Sometimes I write scenes just to get to write a summer storm.” –William Gay
When I took that first tentative step up into William Gay’s cabin in …
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