“This volume’s singularity is well suggested by five contributors who have won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Rita Dove, Claudia Emerson, Forrest Gander, Henry Taylor, and Charles Wright. As if prompted by the same geography that creates adaptations between plant and animal species, these exemplars have each been shaped by and in turn, shaped their environments. The awarded Thomas and Beulah, Late Wife, Be With, The Flying Change, and Black Zodiac stand as discrete as a pipevine swallowtail from a red admiral from a hairstreak from a Luna moth from a viceroy, although all five poets and butterflies hold Virginia in common.” —Amy Wright, Introduction
“Amy Wright’s Everything in the Universe is Whitmanesque in its celebration of every tiny thing. These poems sing the stuff that moves under the boot-soles, stopping to name each beautiful breath of the dirt from Bird-dung Mimic to Moon-headed True Bug to Cobra Lily. In Wright’s lyric poems the natural world is alive with invisible eyes; here, humans are foolish, ‘sounding / the collective organ / we mistake constantly as unconscious.’ Reader, tread lightly. These poems buzz, sting and flood with a many-bodied blood.” —Beth Bachmann
Creeks of the Upper South was co-authored with William Wright and published in collaboration between Jacar Press and Unicorn Press. Poems from this collection first appeared in Terrain.org and Appalachian Heritage, among other journals.
Composed in a radical hybrid form, Paper Concert: A Conversation in the Round joins in dialogue artists, musicians, scientists, and mavericks to discuss issues as far-reaching as asthma zones in Harlem and possibilities inherent in the essay.
Poems from Cracker Sonnets also appeared in Quarterly West, Bluestem, and Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry anthology. Some of the true stories of this cast of characters were based on Holy Mackerels.
Essays in Think I’ll Go Eat a Worm also appeared in Gastronomica, Kenyon Review, and Waveform: Twenty-First-Century Essays by Women (University of Georgia Press)
Wherever the Land Is was published in 2016 by MIEL, and contains essays first published in DIAGRAM, Denver Quarterly, and Tupelo Quarterly
Cracker crumbs in the bed, rhinestones was published in 2014 by Dancing Girl Press
Farm was published in 2010 by Finishing Line Press
There Are No New Ways To Kill A Man was published in 2008 by Apostrophe Books
The Garden Will Give You A Fat Lip was published in 2012 by Pavement Saw Press