Recent Work in Anthologies

Several new anthologies including work of mine in both poetry and prose have arrived in my mail box recently. I thought I'd highlight them here in case anyone wants to check them out:

 Still Home: The Essential Poetry of Spartanburg edited by Rachel Harkai (Hub City Writers Project, 2008) includes a selection of my poems along with the work of  23 other Hub City poets. Of this collection Kwame Dawes said, "It is rare that a regional anthology can manage to capture of sense of a region, its history and culture, while managing to expand its force to engage themes that are moving and powerful to readers from anywhere. This anthology is one such rare achievement and one that should be celebrated." Rachel Harkai was the 2007-2008 Hub City Writer-in-Residence.

Field Work: Modern Poems from the Eastern Forests (U of Kentucky Press, 2008), features two old, old poems of mine, "The Homecoming of Osceloa" and "The River Falling," both written in the late 1970s. Thanks to Erik for including them. It's great to be included among such luminaries of the contemporary poetry world— A.R. Ammons, Hayden Carruth, Wendell Berry, and Mary Oliver

Voice for the Earth: American Writers Respond to the Earth Charter (U of Georgia Press, 2008) includes an essay of mine called "Lake Conestee," a piece about taking a Wofford class to visit an old mill pond in Greenville, South Carolina. This important anthology is edited by Florda Gulf Coast University's Peter Blaze Corcoran and Jim Wohlpart offers perspective on the Earth Charter from a number of American writers including Alison Hawthorne Deming,Rick Bass, Janissee Ray, Robert Michael Pyle, Scott Russell Sanders, and Lauret Savoy. Great company to keep for a literary eternity!

Finally, Teaching About Place: Learning from the Land Edited by Laird Christensen and Hal Crimmel (University of Nevada Press, 2008) came out early in the winter, and it has a piece that I co-authored with my friend and colleague Ellen Goldey from the Wofford biology department. It tells the story of our humanties/biology "learning community" and how we used an all-day outreach called "Meet the Creek" to teach 5th graders about water and the local watershed. It also includes contributions from John Elder, Cheryll Glotfelty, Rochelle Johnson, Ann and Susan Zwinger.