Outside the Canon: On the Places and Poetic Forms of the Black Southern Poetry
Charleston Library Society 164 King St, Charleston, SC, United StatesRSVP HERE: https://www.poetrysocietysc.org/event-info/outside-the-canon-on-the-places-and-poetic-forms-of-the-black-southern-poetry The Southern writing tradition has always been the fertile ground for fire. Dry weeds exist, yet the soil is rich. For me, the South is a living, breathing thing: a ghost, a bay window, a river’s edge, a magnolia tree, a stained-glass hymn. Like many great poets that came before me, I […]