Edited by William Wright and Paul Ruffin, The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume V: Georgia brings together over one hundred of Georgia’s poets, including David Bottoms, Natasha Trethewey, Leon Stokesbury, Thomas Lux, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Alice Friman, Judson Mitcham, and Stephen Corey, as well as myriad other luminous voices. The volume marks the fifth of the series Art & Literature has called “one of the most ambitious projects in contemporary Southern letters.”
William Wright is author of Dark Orchard, The Ghost Narratives, and Sleep Paralysis. Wright is the series editor of The Southern Poetry Anthology and founding editor of Town Creek Poetry.
Paul Ruffin, Texas State University System Regents' Professor at Sam Houston State University, USA is the author of two novels, four collections of stories, four books of essays, and seven collections of poetry.