Conversations with Dolly Parton at 3 a.m. and Other Poems

A Poetry Sampler 


When we first read Makayla Gay's poem featuring Dolly Parton handing out her practical advice in full voice, we fell in love with Dolly all over again ("our holy mother") and with Makayla's poem. Usually we present these samplers as poems related by theme or motif. Even though this is not a poetry sampler organized around Dolly Parton themes, the other poems here, like a classic Dolly Parton song, epitomize our complicated and brutal realities set to the prettiest music. 

~Marianne Worthington, poetry editor


Makayla Gay
Conversations with Dolly Parton at 3 a.m.


Wendy Dinwiddie
my father as the house where I never lived


Renee Emerson
Amazons


Karen George
Lingering


Pauletta Hansel
Morning, Loretto Motherhouse, Late November


Melissa Helton
Jayus


Thomas Alan Holmes
True Stories


William Rieppe Moore
Weedy Heart of Stoney Mountain


James Owens
Realpolitik, January Morning

Linda Parsons
Pie Lee


Jason Roberts
Night Life III

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