Despite promises to his pregnant wife and dead mother never to follow in the footsteps of his father, Calvin Gaddy takes a job at Coventry Prison in the North Carolina Piedmont. He soon finds himself snared in the literal prison of Coventry-and in a cell of his own making. He watches as his father, Mac, a retired iron-willed, old-school chain gang guard, descends into madness. And when Calvin unwittingly traffics in contraband on the prison yard, he begins to realize that the prison is on the verge of disintegration from within.

Coventry

Literature & Fiction

Joseph Bathanti

Literary

Novello Festival Press

A diverse and eclectic collection of poems,alongside recipes created by poets and their friends.

the sound of poets cooking

Sarah Lindsay

Kathryn Stripling Byer

Richard Krawiec

Fred Chappell

Kelly, Cherry

Jaki Shelton Green

Al Maginnes

Malaika King Albrecht

Grey Brown

Sally Buckner

John Hoppenthaler

Debra Kaufman

Susan Ludvigson

Scott Owens

Jacar Pess

Of evenings, Joan, especially in the later months, took to bed quite early. Left to myself, with hours before I'd sleep, I wrote at night by candlelight in our dining room, the old poker parlor. For two or three hours, occasionally more, I'd work in a heat until urged from the room by a faint rustle behind me, what seemed like eyes at the window, or the congregation of ghosts I imagined marching across the winter wheat at my elbow. Perhaps by sitting in that charged room, in a ring of candles, writing about the house, its former occupants, and the countryside it had been hidden in for years and years, I had all along been invoking ghosts. What I was certain of was that I found a book of poems, Anson County, shaping under my hand. A book informed muse-like by the spirit of the dwelling, my sleeping pregnant wife, and the mystery of our unborn child.

Anson County: Poems

Poetry

Parkway Publishers

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