Richard previously wrote this beautiful poem for us. River Town My city came with its own tangle of meanings, bars and backseats where I lost my innocence avidly, gardenias, pure intoxication when ...

On the south side of the river / inside a mossy grove / they say there lives a boy / with pockets full of gold… So begins a ...

“Mother gone to ash / river gone to drowned,” Nicole Cooley writes in the titular poem of "Mother Water Ash" (LSU Press, 72 pages, $19.95): Cooley, now a professor at Queens College at City ...