Recent Entries from Poetry and Poetics
On The Web
Poems
"Double Negatives" at ConnotationPress.com
Two poems at Anti- (Finalist for the 2008 Sundress Best of the Net)
"A Field Guide To Northeast Alabama" (four poems on video) at Southern Spaces
"At Liberty" and "Love"at Memorious
"The Crowd He Becomes" at DIAGRAM
"At Genesse," "Aubade," "DeSoto, After," and "In Arizona When Howard Finster Dies" at Diode
Selections from A Map of the County at RealPoetik
"At Liberty," "Substantiation," "For Reverend James Reeb," and "For Lamar Smith" at Blackbird
"Bunk Richardson," "Consolation," "On Tallaseehatchee Creek," and "Vigil" at Blackbird
"Vigil," "Negatives," and "Elegy for James Knox" at Campbell Corner
"Walt Whitman in Alabama," "Hush," "Negatives" and "York" at Colorado Poets Center
"Signal" at DIAGRAM
"Elegy for James Knox" at DIAGRAM
"Interferometry" at Greensboro Review
"Aubade," "Doppler," "What You Wish For," "Under," "Fell," "Heat," and "Regret/Egret" at H_NGM_N
"Legba Says" in Octopus
"Still" and "Bye Bye Blackbird/Blackbird Bye Bye" at Shampoo
"Panoramic: Landscape With Repeating Figures," "Double Exposure" and "Elegy for Little Girls" at Terrain.org
"Virga," "Radiotherapy," and "Diphthong" at Typo
"Radiotherapy" at Poetry 365.
Interviews
With Natasha Trethewey at Southern Spaces
With New South
With Blackbird, in text and audio.
With Kate Greenstreet (first book interview)
With Dislocate's Nate Slawson
With Town Creek Poetry
Reviews
Ron Slate's review of A Murmuration of Starlings
Bruce Alford's review of A Murmuration of Starlings for the Alabama Writers Forum
Microreview of A Murmuration of Starlings at Yalobusha Review
Simmons Buntin's microreview of A Murmuration of Starlings
Susan Settlemyre Williams's review of Murder Ballads at Blackbird
Simmons Buntin's review of Murder Ballads at Terrain.org.
Clay Matthews's review of Murder Ballads at H_NGM_N
Jeff Newberry's review of Murder Ballads at Poetry Southeast
Essays &c
"The Marrow of the Bone of Contention: A Barbecue Journal" at storySouth, a 2003 Arts & Letters Daily Article of Note
An introduction to Alabama barbecue, on the Southern BBQ Trail at the Southern Foodways Alliance
"Recovery: Learning the Music of History" at Terrain.org
Five favorite poems at JMWW