Out Loud Huntsville: A Year in Review 2024  Edited by Kimberly Casey  Out Loud HSV, 2025  Paperback: $12.00  Genre: Poetry  Reviewed by Foster Dickson     Out Loud Huntsville’s ninth Year in Review anthology contains poems from twenty-six distinctly diverse writers, who dub themselves a “spoken word community.” The anthology, edited by Kimberly Casey, is organized alphabetically by the poets’ last names, or in the case of one, by his only name. The author bios at the end of the book reveal that the contributors run the gamut: some from creative writing backgrounds, which is to be expected, and among the others: a technical writer, a journalist, theater folks, scientists and engineers, several writers from other parts of the country and of the world, a handful who write under pseudonyms, and even one self-described “cultural enigma.”   Unlike some multi-author poetry collections, Out Loud Huntsville’s does not open with a prose introduction by the editor. Instead, the reader is launched straight into the poems, starting with Frankie Allen’s “The Aspiration of an Offspring,” a free-verse testimonial about wanting encouragement. [...]