William Wright is author of seven collections of poetry: three full length books, including Tree Heresies (Mercer University Press, forthcoming), Night Field Anecdote, and Bledsoe. Wright is Series Editor of The Southern Poetry Anthology, a multivolume series celebrating contemporary writing of the American South, published by Texas Review Press.
Adam Vines is an assistant professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he is editor of Birmingham Poetry Review. He has published recent poems in Poetry, Southwest Review, and Gulf Coast. He is the author of The Coal Life (University of Arkansas Press).
Winter 2014
The Bloom, the Furnace, the Stars: An Elegy for Jake Adam York
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Fire and metal, fire and metal:
I think of you now somehow in days
where work weeps far into dusk and mind’s