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down the barrel of a gun an outlaw slipping off your horse hauling a mix of rain and sunset in time to answer prayers and save me— the little lady, from myself or what the law allows. No life or godless cells cluster in your wake as you set fire to my velvet curtains and cut out with a cache of rubies like plucked hearts so I never suspect a homemaker in a killer disguise who cleans and warms the place. – Emily Davis-Fletcher Emily Davis-Fletcher earned a BFA in creative writing from Stephens College and an MA in women’s studies from the National University of Ireland Galway. Her poetry has appeared inSouthword, Crannóg Magazine, the Irish Examiner, and The High Window, among other journals and anthologies. She has taught creativity and poetry workshops as part of the Life-long Learning program at the University of South Carolina Beaufort. In 2018, Emily was selected to read at the Cork International Poetry Festival Introductions Reading; and, most recently, she was a guest poet at the Deckle Edge Book Festival. Currently, Emily is writing her debut poetry collection, My Half of Night, and a screenplay with her best friend Heather.
The Sound of Prayer A hum rises in the forest – Olivia Stiffler Olivia Stiffler’s first book of poems, Otherwise, we are safe, was published by Dos Madres Press in 2013 and was included on Writer’s Almanac’s Best of 2014list. Her second book, Hiding in Plain Sight, was published by Dos Madres in 2017. More information is available at her website, www.oliviastiffler.com.
What Goes Unsaid What goes unsaid What goes unsaid What goes unsaid When what goes unsaid is spoken – Jacquelyn Markham Jacquelyn Markham is the author of two chapbooks and a collection, Peering Into the Iris: An Ancestral Journey, has published in Anthology of Appalachian Writers;Adrienne Rich: A Tribute Anthology; North of Wakulla: An Anhinga Anthology; Archive: South Carolina Poetry Since 2005; Woman and Earth (An Almanac in English and Russian); Fotoalbum: Around the World; & Bitterroot International Poetry Journal, among others. Markham holds a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and teaches women’s and cultural studies and writing as Professor of Liberal Arts.
Shoulders Born just before my sixtieth year, little boy, I rub your shoulders with the reach of my one hand and imagine the man you will be. It’s a way, I know, to connect your being and becoming with my vanishing. They will take on mass in time as you’ll want to make things your way and lift and carry what you must, as you’ll want to make a place or name for yourself, as you’ll want to make love with someone and turn your head to watch the beauty of that person in the world, though you can’t quite look back, nor should you, at those, like the father holding you now, who’ll go away, then come back to rest in your head above or your heart beneath. – Quitman Marshall Quitman Marshall’s book of poems, his fifth, You Were Born One Time, won the SC Poetry Archives Book Prize in 2013. A founding host of the Literary Series at Spoleto Festival USA and a winner of the Writers Exchange Award (Poets & Writers), he is presently sailing three manuscripts: Swampitude (nonfiction); The Bloody Point (novel); and American Folklore(poetry). Since 2001 he has lived in Beaufort, SC, with his wife and now three children.
If a man knows he does not need to see a woman to catch her scent in her clothes when he is drawn to the window to watch a cloud that floats over the house and a shadow that slips through the grass before he goes back to the closet and pulls a silk scarf and a wool dress from a tangle of hangers on hooks, and kneels to pick up a shoe, why does he sit on the edge of the bed with her clothes when he knows she is not there? – Warren Slesinger After he graduated from the Iowa Writers Workshop with an M.F.A., Warren Slesinger taught English part time while working full time in the publishing business as an editor, marketing manager or sales manager at the following university presses: Chicago, Oregon, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. His poetry has been published in The American Poetry Review, The Antioch Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal,The Georgia Review. The Iowa Review. New Letters, The North American Review. Northwest Review, Poetry Daily, The Sewanee Review,and The South Carolina Review. At present, he teaches part time at the University of South Carolina-Beaufort.
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Hear these Beaufort poets and five other diverse South Carolina poets read at the launch of Archive: South Carolina Poetry Since 2005 on Saturday, April 27, from 5 pm at the Pat Conroy Literary Center. Published by Ninety-Six Press, Archive features 46 contributors, documenting the poetic life of the Palmetto State over the past 13 years. This event is free and open to the public; copies of Archive will be available for sale and signing after the reading.