John Andrews

Dorothy Allison

Jericho Brown

Kevin Sessums

Will Stockton

D. Gilson

Mary Meriam

Derrick Austin

Sassafras Lowrey

Perry Brass

Dan Stone

Ed Madden

Cameron Mitchell

Miriam Bird Greenberg

Jeff Mann

Shane Allison

Richard Blanco

Randall Mann

Scott Wiggerman

Valerie Wetlaufer

Jason K. Friedman

TC Tolbert

Dan Vera

Del Shores

Darrel Alejandro Holnes

Evan J. Peterson

Joseph Osmundson

Christine Stroud

Jeffery Berg

Dustin Brookshire

Joey Connelly

William Cordeiro

C. Cleo Creech

James Croteau

J.K. Daniels

Nick Dephtereos

David Eye

Ellen Goldstein

Elizabeth Gross

Johnathan Harper

Scott Hightower

Matthew Hittinger

Rex Leonowicz

Tyler Lynn

Bo McGuire

Rangi McNeil

Kelly McQuain

M. Mack

Stephen S. Mills

Foster Noone

Eddie Outlaw

Seth Pennington

Kenneth Pobo

Brad Richard

Hannah Riddle

Laurence Ross

Liana Roux

Erin Elizabeth Smith

Billie Tadros

Annie Virginia

C.T. Whitley

Cristan Williams

L. Lamar Wilson

In The Queer South, Douglas Ray has assembled over 60 queer-identified voices exploring their experiences of the American South in nonfiction and poetry. From hilarious to heartbreaking, anxious to angry, religious to reluctant, contemplative to celebratory, this anthology expands our ideas of what it means to be queer and what it means to represent the land south of the Mason-Dixon. Included are Dorothy Allison, Shane Allison, John Andrews, Derrick Austin, Jeffery Berg, Richard Blanco, Perry Brass, Dustin Brookshire, Jericho Brown, Joey Connelly, William Cordeiro, C. Cleo Creech, James Croteau, J.K. Daniels, Nick Dephtereos, David Eye, Jason K. Friedman, D. Gilson, Ellen Goldstein, Miriam Bird Greenberg, Elizabeth Gross, Johnathan Harper, Scott Hightower, Matthew Hittinger, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Rex Leonowicz, Sassafras Lowrey, Tyler Lynn, Bo McGuire, Rangi McNeil, Kelly McQuain, M. Mack, Ed Madden, Jeff Mann, Randall Mann, Mary Meriam, Stephen S. Mills, Cameron Mitchell, Foster Noone, Joseph Osmundson, Eddie Outlaw, Seth Pennington, Evan J. Peterson, Kenneth Pobo, Brad Richard, Hannah Riddle, Laurence Ross, Liana Roux, Kevin Sessums, Del Shores, Erin Elizabeth Smith, Will Stockton, Dan Stone, Christine Stroud, Billie Tadros, TC Tolbert, Dan Vera, Annie Virginia, Valerie Wetlaufer, C.T. Whitley, Scott Wiggerman, Cristan Williams, and L. Lamar Wilson.

LGBTQ Writers on the American South

The Queer South

David E. Meischen

Wingbeats: Exercises & Practice in Poetry is an exciting collection from poets who teach both in and outside academia. Fifty-eight poets in various stages of their careers have contributed sixty-one exercises ranging from quick and simple to involved and multi-layered. In seven chapters, ranging from “Springboards to Imagination” to “Chancing the Accidental” to “Complicating the Poem,” each exercise includes not only clear step-by-step instructions, but numerous poems that exemplify the successful completion of the exercise. Wingbeats, edited by Scott Wiggerman and David Meischen, includes exercises for working in pairs and/or groups, for incorporating research and/or the Internet, for writing outdoors, for creating a hands-on experience. Of course, traditional poetic techniques covering metaphor, persona, forms, and revision are also included. Wingbeats is destined to become a standard instructional book in every poet's library.

Exercises & Practice in Poetry

Wingbeats

David Meischen

WINGBEATS II: EXERCISES & PRACTICE IN POETRY, the eagerly awaited follow-up to the original WINGBEATS, is an exciting collection from teaching poets—58 poets, 59 exercises. Whether you want a quick exercise to jump-start the words or multi-layered approaches that will take you deeper into poetry, WINGBEATS II is for you. The exercises include clear step-by-step instruction and numerous example poems, including work by Lucille Clifton, Li-Young Lee, Cleopatra Mathis, Ezra Pound, Kenneth Rexroth, Patricia Smith, William Carlos Williams, and others. You will find exercises for collaborative writing, for bending narrative into new poetic shapes, for experimenting with persona, for writing nonlinear poems. For those interested in traditional elements, WINGBEATS II includes exercises on the sonnet, as well as approaches to meter, line breaks, syllabics, and more. Like its predecessor, WINGBEATS II will be a standard in creative writing classes, a standard go-to in every poet's library.

Wingbeats II: Exercises and Practice in Poetry

Scott Wiggerman

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