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Marlin Barton is the first recipient of the Capote Prize for short fiction. He teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He also teaches creative writing in a program for juvenile offenders called Writing Our Stories, created by the Alabama Writers’ Forum.
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Children of Dust shows how the unsettled questions from the past carry forward, creating searches for answers generations later
The breaks and turns give a vivid sense of how history is both made and survived.
With riveting prose, Barton proves he is a master storyteller
An immersive story that asks the hardest questions and answers them with powerful and propulsive historical fiction.
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Another Land of My Body
Another Land of My Body By Rodney Terich Leonard Four Way Books, 2024 Paperback: $17.95 Genre: Poetry, Black and African American Poetry, LGBTQ+ Poetry Reviewed by Jason McCall To live in Alabama is to live with death as a next-door neighbor. Among the states, only West Virginia and Mississippi rank below Alabama in life expectancy, and only Arkansas and Mississippi have higher infant mortality rates. The statistics for Alabama relating to standards like poverty and healthcare are similarly bleak. These dire realities leave many of Alabama’s citizens with a set of choices: accept Alabama as a doomed place, escape Alabama and leave all connections to the state behind, or find a way to live and thrive in the face of all the horrors and history connected to the state. In Rodney Terich Leonard’s poetry collection Another Land of My Body, he gives readers an array of bodies that are in different relationships with the land and with death. For example, in “Nary a Thimble for Young Sadness,” Leonard’s speaker laments the death of Nigel Shelby, a [...]
