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@bbrymer.bsky.socialReposted by @salvationsouth.comThrilled to have four poems in the latest issue of @salvationsouth.com. Check out the cover article on Willie Edward Taylor Carver, Jr., and poems by Samantha Renee Ratcliffe. Check it out: www.salvationsouth.com
@salvationsouth.comKentucky poet Samantha Renee Ratcliffe reads “Comforter”:
“Help me. I have too much / watermelon & no one to feed.”
@salvationsouth.comBill Brymer of Louisville reads four poems about what a neighborhood teaches, from a repainted lawn jockey to a father in a backyard boxing ring:
“Again, he says, a drop of blood on his lip. Again.”
@salvationsouth.comFive poems from The Red Ahead, read aloud by the author.
“Cicadas are the body / Mothman is Holy Spirit / Salvation is always / now”
@salvationsouth.comIn The Red Ahead, Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. makes Mothman a companion for queer Appalachians. He talks with Laura Leigh Morris about faith, loss, and what he calls “the through.”
“The holiest moments are about staying.”
@salvationsouth.comAt 18, in Damascus, Karim Shamsi-Basha watched "To Kill a Mockingbird" and crossed an ocean to the America he saw in it. Mary Badham, who played Scout, and Cecilia Peck, Gregory's daughter because friends on the movie set as children. Their new new play will soon premiere in Birmingham.
