Reviewed by Claire Hamner Matturro Award-winning writer Jeanie Thompson is a brave, bold poet. In The Myth of Water (University of Alabama Press 2016), she presents a remarkable and evocative series of thirty-four poems to tell a deeply personal story of the iconic Helen Keller. And if the concept of historical persona poems wasn’t daring […]
Lauren K. Denton
March 28, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Lauren K. Denton, an Alabama writer, pens stories that chronicle women’s journeys towards truth and love, hope and healing. Her debut novel, The Hideaway, releases in April 2017.
“South of the Etowah,” by Raymond L. Atkins
December 7, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by Daniel James Sundahl The “Etowah” in the title to Raymond L. Atkins’s recently published book refers to a 164-mile-long waterway rising in northwest Georgia to begin flowing south and then west through Rome, Georgia. If one had the interest, one might build a raft and, Huckleberry-like, float along through Alabama down to Mobile […]
“Don’t Date Baptists—and other things my mother told me,” by Terry Barr
September 15, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by Walter Bennett Terry Barr’s Don’t Date Baptists is foremost a book of stories—an almost stream-of-consciousness narrative—about a boy’s coming to manhood and moral awareness in the deep South of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, a propitious time and place indeed to be the son of a Jewish father and Methodist mother. And that […]