Synopses & Reviews
The Southern Poetry Anthology Volume I: South Carolina is the first in a series of poetry anthologies that will focus on contemporary poetry of the American South, region by region. In this inaugural collection, editors William Wright and Stephen Gardner have collected and compiled the work of seventy-six poets who claimor have claimed sometime in their lifeSouth Carolina as home and as a palpable influence on their work.
About the Author
STEPHEN GARDNER is the G. L. Toole Professor of English at the University of South CarolinaAiken, where he has taught literature and creative writing since 1972. The author of
This Book Belongs to Eva, Gardner also edited the literary magazines
kudzu and
The Devil's Millhopper.
WILLIAM WRIGHT is a teaching fellow and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Writers. He is author of a book of poems, Dark Orchard, and has published in such journals as North American Review, New Orleans Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Colorado Review. His next editing project centers on contemporary Appalachian Poetry.