{"product_id":"the-southern-poetry-anthology-volume-x-alabama-volume-10-9781680033267","title":"The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume X: Alabama: Volume 10","description":"Alabama has a storied history: Fewer than ten generations ago, Alabama was owned by the Spanish (who claimed Mobile until 1813), then the British, and then the United States, after failing to secede into a Confederacy. Following the Civil War, Alabama suffered economic collapse and depended on the few crops it could sell or export to exist as a unified state. Today, the state thrives, but its troubled history has left a mark that, with hope, fades with time, compassion, and understanding. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Alabama is among the most naturally dynamic states in the nation, its ecosystems ranging from Appalachian mountains, through rolling Piedmont, to the vast Gulf Shore. \u003cbr\u003e In this tenth volume of \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Poetry Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e, the editors have achieved a remarkable task; they have revealed another wide variegation that makes Alabama so dynamic: poets in the Yellowhammer State with both established and new voices. They have elucidated the impressive and exciting diversity of poets who consider or have considered Alabama home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWILLIAM WRIGHT is author or editor of over twenty nationally published books, with several forthcoming. Most recently, Wright published \u003ci\u003eGrass Chapels: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e with Mercer University Press in 2021. Wright has been named the Georgia Author of the Year, the Georgia Editor of the Year, and won the Terrain.org Grand Prize. Wright was named Writer-in-Residence at the University of Tennessee in 2016 and Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University and Oxford College of Emory from 2017-2020. Currently, he's working on a novel, a collection of essays, and a volume of poetry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e TAYLOR BYAS (she\/her) is a Black Chicago native currently living in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she is an Associate Editor for \u003ci\u003eCincinnati Review\u003c\/i\u003e and an Assistant Features Editor for \u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the 1st place winner of the 2020 Poetry Super Highway, the 2020 Frontier Poetry Award for New Poets Contests, and the 2021 Adrienne Rich Poetry Prize. She is the author of the chapbooks \u003ci\u003eBloodwarm\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eShutter, \u003c\/i\u003eand her debut full-length \u003ci\u003eI Done Clicked My Heels Three Times\u003c\/i\u003e will be out with Soft Skull Press in August 2023. She is represented by Rena Rossner of the Deborah Harris Agency. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e J. BRUCE FULLER is the author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Drown a Boy\u003c\/i\u003e (LSU Press, 2024). His chapbooks include \u003ci\u003eThe Dissenter's Ground\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLancelot\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFlood, \u003c\/i\u003eand his poems have appeared at \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Review, McNeese Review, Birmingham Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBest New Poets 2022\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. He has received scholarships from Bread Loaf, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. He teaches at Sam Houston State University where he is Director of TRP: The University Press of SHSU. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e ADAM VINES is a professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he edits \u003ci\u003eBirmingham Poetry Review.\u003c\/i\u003e He is the author of five collections of poetry, the latest, \u003ci\u003eLures \u003c\/i\u003e(LSU Press, 2022) He has published poems in \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Review, Kenyon Review, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Poetry, \u003c\/i\u003eamong other journals.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Texas Review Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50725106286866,"sku":"9781680033267","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d678a54d-1dd3-4145-8b68-09265d54aca7.jpg?v=1734816846","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-southern-poetry-anthology-volume-x-alabama-volume-10-9781680033267","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}