Southern Messenger Poets

  • The Appalachian Sea: Poems

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    Steve Scafidi’s The Appalachian Sea explores the eponymous place of mountains and story, of rivers and magic, as well as of mortality, where people work and live and die. What began as an homage to th… [more below]

    • Series: Southern Messenger Poets
    • Author: Scafidi, Steve
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 72
    • Publish Date: July 03 2025
    • ISBN10: 0807184713
    • Language: English
  • A Scrap in the Blessings Jar: New and Selected Poems

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    A Scrap in the Blessings Jar, a volume of new and selected poems by David Bottoms, captures the evolution of the poet’s spiritual quest over the past fifty years. A native and longtime resident of Geo… [more below]

    • Series: Southern Messenger Poets
    • Author: Bottoms, David
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: October 04 2023
    • ISBN10: 0807180319
    • Language: English
  • The Cabinetmaker’s Window

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    “Dying never / ends for us. It only slowly rearranges us,” writes Steve Scafidi in his poignant new collection. Inspired by his own work as a cabinetmaker — defined by the peppery dust from the woodw

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    • Series: Southern Messenger Poets
    • Author: Scafidi, Steve
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: February 10 2014
    • ISBN10: 0807154490
    • Language: English
  • Daniel Boone’s Window: Poems

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    Daniel Boone’s Window, a new book of poetry by Matthew Wimberley, meditates on the past and future of contemporary Appalachia through explorations of both mythologized and actual landscapes. In poems … [more below]

    • Series: Southern Messenger Poets
    • Author: Wimberley, Matthew
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 78
    • Publish Date: September 08 2021
    • ISBN10: 0807175684
    • Language: English
  • In Ghostlight: Poems

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    In Ghostlight, a long-awaited second collection of original poems by Ryan Wilson, considers the haunting of the contemporary mind. With virtuosic formal variety and masterful craft, these poems range

    • Series: Southern Messenger Poets
    • Author: Wilson, Ryan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 72
    • Publish Date: January 31, 2024
    • ISBN10: 0807181293
    • Language: English
  • That Beauty in the Trees: Poems

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    Moving effortlessly from Virginia to Italy and beyond, Ron Smith’s new volume responds with a range of emotions from humor to horror and with a variety of forms from the sonnet to visually expressive

    • Series: Southern Messenger Poets
    • Author: Smith, Ron
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 116
    • Publish Date: April 19, 2023
    • ISBN10: 0807177989
    • Language: English
  • Mothers of Ireland: Poems

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    Celebrated poet Julie Kane returns to her Boston Irish Catholic roots in this collection about mothers and daughters shaped by the forces of Irish history and Irish–American culture. Mothers of Irela

    • Series: Southern Messenger Poets
    • Author: Kane, Julie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 70
    • Publish Date: February 19, 2020
    • ISBN10: 0807170755
    • Language: English
  • Alabama: Poems

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    Alabama focuses on a boy from a rural, fundamentalist community who becomes a pacifist, feminist, and existentialist poet. Labyrinth, meditation, fable, and peasant poem, formed from interleaved stran

    • Series: Southern Messenger Poets
    • Author: Jones, Rodney
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 92
    • Publish Date: August 23, 2023
    • ISBN10: 0807180106
    • Language: English
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