Poetry — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER

June 10, 2026

Imagine Us, In Love With the World

by Ashley M. Jones

June 10, 2026

National Fast-Food Entity 2

by Lee Bains III

June 10, 2026

Yonder

Vines

Nikki Giovanni

I Come From Me

Shanequa Gay

A Little Girl Asks My Grandma

Arielle Gray

Six Poems by Coleman Barks

Coleman Barks

Out of Nowhere

Michael Dickman

Goodbye to the Black and White Ball

Joan Baez

Grass, 1967

Victoria Chang

The Shotgun House on Music Street

Stephanie Clare Smith

Altarpiece

Kevin Young

West Bank Checkpoint, 2016

Jacqueline Woodson

10 Rules for Going Feral

J. Drew Lanham

Why I Can’t Cook for Your Self-Centered Architect Cousin
Beth Ann Fennelly

Cumberland Falls

Silas House

As Friends Begin Second Marriages I Admire the Can Opener

Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor

The Andromeda Galaxy Is the Closest Galaxy to our Milky Way

Clint Smith

after Grace Paley

Anis Mojgani

Motherland

Crystal Wilkinson

Shapes, Dancing

Cole Schafer

All Dressed Up

Tarriona “Tank” Ball

We Had Dreams Named After Us

Joy Priest

Trees in Mississippi

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Foreday in the Morning

Jericho Brown

Hotbed 11

Nikky Finney

I Call Them Back to Me

Maggie Smith

The Chicharra

Reyes Ramirez

All Y’all Really From Alabama?

Ashley Jones

Some Advice

J. Drew Lanham

This Woman

Tara M. Stringfellow

Finding Me

Hannah Drake

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