Back in 2010, editors William Wright, Jesse Graves, and Paul Ruffin kindly reprinted seven of my poems in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol. III: Contemporary Appalachia. This week, the second edition of the anthology was released, edited by J. Bruce Fuller, Jesse Graves, and Paul Ruffin as volume editors and
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Community Pride in Blacksburg
On June 11th, Community Pride in Blacksburg sponsored an evening event at The Lyric Theatre in Blacksburg, Virginia. The entertaining roster of performers included musicians, authors, and drag queens. I read from one of my latest essays, “The Insurrection Beard,” which recently appeared in Rural Education and Queer Identities: Rural
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