From the editors of the innovative composite anthology A Shared Voice (INDIEFAB and Spur Award Finalist, 2013) comes this unique anthology of works by Southern poets.  The poems in this exciting volume crisscross the Greater American South from Virginia to the Ozarks, from the Texas hill country to the Florida coast.  Writing in a variety of forms and on an amazing array of subjects, the fifty master-poets in Southern Voices explore all the corners of this gradually evolving region along with its flora, fauna, cultural idiosyncrasies, and distinctive cuisines.  

Published in 2024 by Lamar University Literary Press, Lesser Mountains is Andrew Geyer's second co-edited collection and this eleventh book.

The fifty poets whose work is featured in Southern Voices include:

  • Terrance Hayes
  • Silas House
  • Louisa A. Igloria
  • Ashley M. Jones
  • Ron Rash
  • Chelsea Rathburn
  • Marjorie Wentworth

Cover art by Aiken, SC artist Michael Budd. 

With their focus on place and voice, the poems in Southern Voices are a sometimes troubling, but always gorgeously enthralling picture of the South as it nears the close of the first quarter of the twenty-first century.  It is an anthology absolutely not to be missed.

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