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Jennifer Bartell Boykin

Poet Laureate of Columbia, SC

  • Poems
    • Two Clocks on the Same Street
    • Better Angels
    • Interstate Prayer
    • Window and Wall
    • The Sound of a Needle on Vinyl
    • A New Year
    • Crossing – for the 2017 Gervais Street Bridge Dinner
    • On considering the bronze bust of J. Marion Sims at the northwest corner of the South Carolina statehouse grounds, at a reading for the monument’s removal, 7 Sept 2017
    • Red, White, Black, or Before the Eclipse
    • Poem for the March for Science South Carolina
    • Body Politic
    • At the corner of Lady and Main
    • Dear Mississippi
    • A Story of the City
    • Knowledge
    • From the Ashes
    • Walk Back Through the Ashes
    • When We’re Told We’ll Never Understand
    • Hercules and the Wagoner
    • At the Gervais Street Bridge Dinner
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    • Rain Poetry
    • Free & Clear
    • Parking Tickets
    • River Poems
    • Poetry on the COMET
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About Ed Madden

Ed Madden is author of four books of poetry--Signals, which won the 2007 SC Poetry Book Prize; Prodigal: Variations; Nest; and Ark, forthcoming in 2016. His chapbook My Father’s House was selected for the Seven Kitchens Press Editor’s Series. His poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2007, The Book of Irish American Poetry, and in journals such as Prairie Schooner, Crazyhorse, Poetry Ireland Review, Los Angeles Review, and online at The Good Men Project.

He was appointed as the Poet Laureate of Columbia, SC in January 2015.

“Dear Mississippi” on The Good Men Project

http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/chb-dear-mississippi/

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Format LinkPosted on May 9, 2016Author lee.snelgroveCategories PoetryTags Mississippi, The Good Men Project

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