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Category: Black Belt

The swath of formerly rich farmland from Meridian, Mississippi to Tuskegee, Alabama. So-called for its black soil and for its slave-holding plantations

(Unpublished) #Poem: “Prairie Mud”

Poetry is my first literary love. I’ve been reading and writing poetry for a long time, ever since my days as an overly emotional high schooler (when I preferred the poetry of Jim Morrison and Jim Carroll) and was scratching down my own rants in lines rather than paragraphs so I could call them poems. And unlike many “poets,” I actually read poetry. Even though in high school I preferred the counterculture writers of the 1960s and 1970s, I chose to write my senior thesis proving that Satan in Milton’s “Paradise Lost” fit… Read more (Unpublished) #Poem: “Prairie Mud”