David Black, local writer, is among the outstanding Virginian poets included in a new collection entitled The Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol. IX: Virginia. He is represented by three poems chosen by Jesse Graves, one of the series editors and Poet-in-Residence at East Tennessee State University.
This collection is part of a sweeping series highlighting the works of contemporary poets in all the Southern states. Among other Virginians represented in this new collection are Rita Dove (Pulitzer winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States), Henry Taylor (also a Pulitzer winner), R.H.W. Dillard (head of the creative writing program at Hollins College), and Gregory Orr (founder and first director of the MFA Program in Writing at U.Va.)
Says Black, “I am more than a bit surprised to be asked to contribute. While I have published across the U.S. and won or placed in regional, state, and national contests, I am mainly a regional poet, I thought little known outside my own back yard.”
He continues, “My usual audience for a poem is Lady, our Golden retriever, who stays in my study and gets to hear every draft as I read them aloud and revise. Usually, she sleeps through them—a good lesson in humility for me.”
Most recently, he had a poem published in Friends Journal, the leading Quaker magazine, and he has another soon to be published in the same periodical.
The anthology is available for pre-order from Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
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