
What We Are Becoming
2024 Southern Prize & State Fellowships for Literary Arts
Hub City Press
Will be published approx. on 7. November 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
152 pages
979-8-88574-056-2 (ISBN)
Description
From South Arts and Hub City Press comes an anthology containing selections of poetry from nine Southern states chosen for the 2025 Southern Prize & State Fellowships in Literary Arts that celebrate innovation in poetry.
Better Futures, Better Songs offers a vivid portrait of a South in transition-an anthology where craft meets courage and every page invites discovery. With striking imagination and technical mastery, these poets push the boundaries of form, voice, and emotion-merging narrative with innovation to craft verse that is both deeply resonant and refreshingly unexpected.Their poems balance wit and poignancy, risk, and refinement-offering a vision of Southern poetry that is as diverse and dynamic as the region itself.
This anthology features work from Meg Day, Julie Hensley, Ashley M. Jones, Aurielle Marie, Karisma Price, C.T. Salazar, Shakeema Smalls, Jessica Q. Stark, and Marcus Wicker.
From visual poetics to narrative invention, this collection celebrates the emotional depth and stylistic brilliance of a region's most vital literary voices. Explore the future of Southern poetry-one unforgettable voice at a time.
Better Futures, Better Songs offers a vivid portrait of a South in transition-an anthology where craft meets courage and every page invites discovery. With striking imagination and technical mastery, these poets push the boundaries of form, voice, and emotion-merging narrative with innovation to craft verse that is both deeply resonant and refreshingly unexpected.Their poems balance wit and poignancy, risk, and refinement-offering a vision of Southern poetry that is as diverse and dynamic as the region itself.
This anthology features work from Meg Day, Julie Hensley, Ashley M. Jones, Aurielle Marie, Karisma Price, C.T. Salazar, Shakeema Smalls, Jessica Q. Stark, and Marcus Wicker.
From visual poetics to narrative invention, this collection celebrates the emotional depth and stylistic brilliance of a region's most vital literary voices. Explore the future of Southern poetry-one unforgettable voice at a time.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
204 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-88574-056-2 (9798885740562)
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Persons
REBECCA GAYLE HOWELL is a genre-rousing writer, translator, librettist, and editor. Her work has received critical acclaim from such outlets as The Los Angeles Times, Poetry London, Asymptote, Publisher's Weekly, and The Kenyon Review, and she has been translated into Spanish and German. Howell's Best Book of the Year honors include those from The Best Translated Book Awards, Foreword INDIES Awards, The Nautilus Awards, The Banipal Prize (U.K.), Poets & Writers, Ms. Magazine, The Millions, Library Journal, Bitter Southerner, and others. Among her other awards are the United States Artists Fellowship, the Carson McCullers Fellowship, the Kentucky Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship, the Pushcart Prize, and two winter fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Howell makes her home between Central Kentucky and Northwest Arkansas.
Content
REBECCA GAYLE HOWELL, Introduction
SUZETTE M. SURKAMER, Foreword
ASHLEY M. JONES | ALABAMA
JESSICA Q. STARK | FLORIDA
AURIELLE MARIE | GEORGIA
JULIE HENSLEY | KENTUCKY
KARISMA PRICE | LOUISIANA
C.T. SALAZAR | MISSISSIPPI
MEG DAY | NORTH CAROLINA
SHAKEEMA SMALLS | SOUTH CAROLINA
MARCUS WICKER | TENNESSEE
CONTRIBUTORS
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SUZETTE M. SURKAMER, Foreword
ASHLEY M. JONES | ALABAMA
JESSICA Q. STARK | FLORIDA
AURIELLE MARIE | GEORGIA
JULIE HENSLEY | KENTUCKY
KARISMA PRICE | LOUISIANA
C.T. SALAZAR | MISSISSIPPI
MEG DAY | NORTH CAROLINA
SHAKEEMA SMALLS | SOUTH CAROLINA
MARCUS WICKER | TENNESSEE
CONTRIBUTORS
SPONSORS, DONORS, & PARTNERS