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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’ve been through the new Southern Humanities Review issue, and David Baker’s “Whippoorwills at Night” is the poem I’d point a friend toward first. It has a measured quietness that suits an unhurried read. Ask them your library subscribe to Southern Humanities Review: buff.ly/2qLxIQQ

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I made my way through the Summer 2026 issue of The Southern Review, and Gaylord Brewer’s “In That Place and on That Day” gave me the kind of pause I like finding in a journal: modest on the surface, but not quick to leave. Ask your local library to subscribe to The Southern Review buff.ly/TE0tKsq

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ICYMI: "Another Man," the award-winning collection by UNCG Creative Writing alum Jim Whiteside, is now available for pre-order from the University of Wisconsin Press buff.ly/6jHiyPB

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Join Ed Southern for a conversation with award-winning author Jessica Handler, TONIGHT, Saturday, September 19th, 6PM, at Scuppernong Books. buff.ly/Qw1AlcR

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Join Ed Southern for a conversation with award-winning author Jessica Handler, tomorrow night, Saturday, September 19th, 6PM, at Scuppernong Books. buff.ly/Qw1AlcR

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I finished reading Beloit Poetry Journal V75N1, and Jesse Lee Kercheval’s “Nap” gave the issue one of those small, human centers I always appreciate in a poetry journal. Ask your local library to subscribe to Beloit Poetry Journal: buff.ly/8VjDnyF

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

ICYMI: "Guilt Ledger," the prize-winning collection by North Carolina poet Ross White is now available for pre-order from Blair. buff.ly/BHzuPSi

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I think of my father’s one-room woodshop, how his business sign eventually blew over beside apple trees and blueberry bushes. At church, men would ask, Staying busy? from "Striving" by Corrie Lynn White buff.ly/pxZqhw7

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

By the time I got here, the album was already history. 1999 dropped in 1982, when I worried about what I’d do with my life after high school, and as I fretted over how my hair looked on mornings before I left for school . . . from "1999" by A. Van Jordan buff.ly/mSzZUjj

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I read through the Summer 2026 issue of The Sewanee Review and found myself circling back to Patricia Lockwood’s “Prediction.” It has the sort of pressure that makes you slow your reading without making a show of it. Ask your local library to subscribe to The Sewanee Review.: buff.ly/Erm4Ojv

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Your cloud line merging into lake line you change by increments strata of silvers and blues a horizon of purple evolves into a pink that fancies itself fire carried through the ripples to my feet . . . from "Lake Michigan" by Julie Funderburk buff.ly/DaMpkRo

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

For Labor Day, Natasha Trethewey’s “Kitchen Maid with Supper at Emmaus, or The Mulata” asks us to look at labor that art and history have too often pushed to the edge of the frame. Read it at Poets.org: buff.ly/IpX34hJ #LaborDay #Poetry #Workers #NatashaTrethewey #ArtAndLabor

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

For Labor Day, Lynda Hull’s “Night Waitress” gives us work after dark: service, fatigue, observation, and the quiet drama of the late shift. Read it at Poets.org: buff.ly/7BRTNh3 #LaborDay #Poetry #ServiceWorkers #NightShift #LyndaHull

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

For Labor Day, Edward Hirsch’s “Liberty Brass” turns toward the music of labor, industry, and the lives shaped by work in American cities. Read it at Poets.org: buff.ly/htKuOag #LaborDay #Poetry #Workers #EdwardHirsch #LaborHistory

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

For Labor Day, Yusef Komunyakaa’s “The Whistle” brings the factory shift into the poem: time, sound, routine, and the pressure of industrial work. Read it at Poets.org: buff.ly/kylXstc #LaborDay #Poetry #Workers #YusefKomunyakaa #FactoryWork

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

For Labor Day, Gary Snyder’s “Hay for the Horses” listens closely to physical labor, memory, and the long rhythm of work done by hand. Read it at Poets.org: buff.ly/6lPO0Km #LaborDay #Poetry #Workers #GarySnyder #ReadPoetry

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

For Labor Day, Countee Cullen’s “Atlantic City Waiter” looks at service work, performance, and the complicated life behind the public-facing job. Read it at Poets.org: buff.ly/DB0jiVi #LaborDay #Poetry #ServiceWorkers #CounteeCullen #ReadPoetry

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

my parents used the term from money it meant a lineage but I envisioned a woman emerging naked and fully formed from sierras of unmarked bills from "From Money" by Ross White buff.ly/GSSOBgo

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

For Labor Day, Langston Hughes’s “My People” offers a brief, luminous reminder that any celebration of work begins with honoring people themselves. Read it at Poets.org: buff.ly/8HB50ga #LaborDay #Poetry #LangstonHughes #Workers #ReadPoetry

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

For Labor Day, Claude McKay’s “The Tired Worker” speaks plainly to exhaustion, desire, and the human need for rest after labor. Read it at Poets.org: buff.ly/Y8eqzZT #LaborDay #Poetry #Workers #ClaudeMcKay #Labor

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

For Labor Day, Carl Sandburg’s “I am the People, the Mob” gives voice to collective labor: the many hands and lives that history depends on, then too often forgets. Read it at Poets.org: buff.ly/9WXRuFJ #LaborDay #Poetry #Workers #CarlSandburg #LaborHistory

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

For Labor Day, Amy Lowell’s “The Coal Picker” looks at difficult, dirty labor without turning away from its physical cost. Read it at Poets.org: buff.ly/qK23rev #LaborDay #Poetry #Workers #LaborHistory #ReadPoetry

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

For Labor Day, Robert Frost’s “Putting in the Seed” brings work back to the earth: planting, tending, waiting, and the old intimacy of labor and season. Read it at Poets.org: buff.ly/dMahOrL #LaborDay #Poetry #FarmWork #RobertFrost #ReadPoetry

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

For Labor Day, W. B. Yeats’s “The Fisherman” turns toward one working figure with a clear, almost bracing seriousness. Read it at Poets.org: buff.ly/x5XSTeU #LaborDay #Poetry #Workers #Fishing #ReadPoetry

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

For Labor Day, a poem for the workers whose labor is carried in the body: Emily Pauline Johnson’s “The Corn Husker.” Read it at Poets.org: buff.ly/L37XbcQ #LaborDay #Poetry #Workers #WorkingPoets #PoemOfTheDay

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

t was first dark when the plow turned it up. Unsown, it came fleshless, mud-ruddled, nothing but itself, the tendon's bored eye threading a ponderous needle . . . from "Bone" by Claudia Emerson buff.ly/DJWqeYX

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I spent a little time with the latest Southern Indiana Review and came away especially glad to have read Jim Whiteside’s “Pin Me.” It’s a good reminder that journals often give you one poem you weren’t expecting to meet that day. Ask your local library to subscribe: buff.ly/Kg514bR

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

You are not here, you are not here in Birmingham, where they keep your name, not in Elmwood's famous plots or the monuments of bronze or steel . . . from "Letter Already Broadcast into Space" by Jake Adam York buff.ly/veRzEyH

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

You can get there from here, though there’s no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you’ve never been. Try this: head south on Mississippi 49, one— by—one mile markers ticking off another minute of your life . . from "Theories of Time and Space" by Natasha Trethewey buff.ly/m8navtN

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Greek olives in oil, fine beer, the respect of colleagues, the rapt attention of an audience, pressed white shirts, just one last-second victory, sympathy, buttons made to resemble pearls . . . from "Among the Things He Does Not Deserve" by Dan Albergotti buff.ly/02RNnXB

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Just finished the Summer 2026 issue of Nimrod, and David James Poissant’s “Dénouement” is still with me. That’s one of the pleasures of a strong literary journal issue: you close it, but one story keeps unfolding afterward. Ask your local library to subscribe to Nimrod: buff.ly/ZR3V9of

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Just finished Rattle Issue 92, and Matthew Thorburn’s “Only Me” is still knocking around in my head. That’s one of the pleasures of a strong issue: you close it, but it doesn’t quite close with you. Ask your local library to subscribe to Rattle so you can read it too: buff.ly/3qHzeUi #Rattle

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

ICYMI: "Gizzards & Hearts," the debut short story collection by N.C. author Matthew Fiander is now available for pre-order from ELJ Editions. buff.ly/ai10FJr In Gizzards & Hearts, people look for any escape as their world closes in around them.

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

ICYMI: "Another Man," the award-winning collection by UNCG Creative Writing alum Jim Whiteside, is now available for pre-order from the University of Wisconsin Press buff.ly/6jHiyPB

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I’ve just finished AGNI 103, and it has that great feeling of an issue you can enter from several directions and leave with several new obsessions. Exactly the kind of literary magazine reading that expands the day. Read the latest issue: buff.ly/I2VfKWb

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Happy Publication Day to my pal George Singleton! George’s new story collection, Wounded Boarders, is out now from Dzanc Books. Kirkus Reviews calls George “a Southern comic master in top form.” Read more / order here: buff.ly/51H3GnA

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Wrapped up reading Pembroke Magazine and Matt Barrett’s “Men in White Shirts” has that quiet, unfolding tension that stays with you after you’ve moved on from the page. You might nudge your local library to add Pembroke Magazine to its subscriptions. buff.ly/rCChTQP

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I just spent some time with the latest print work from Puerto del Sol, and Tara Bray’s “Birds: A Catalog” is still hovering around in my head. The best literary journals make room for that kind of afterimage. Read the latest issue: buff.ly/3CBoddt

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

ICYMI: "Guilt Ledger," the prize-winning collection by North Carolina poet Ross White is now available for pre-order from Blair. buff.ly/BHzuPSi

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Spent some time with New England Review Vol. 47, No. 2, and Jennie Malboeuf’s “The Bible Isn't Kind to Dogs” felt like one of those pieces that quietly unsettles you long after you’ve set it down. Ask your local library to carry New England Review so you can read it too: buff.ly/WaWYdX3

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Just finished the current issue of Southern Humanities Review, and Adam Vines’s “Residency:Still Life: Two Sunflowers” is lingering with me. I love when a journal issue leaves one poem lit up in the mind afterward. Ask your local library to subscribe to Southern Humanities Review.: buff.ly/AFHKrxh

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Happy Publication Day to my friend Jen Julian! Jen’s novel The Winter Folk is out now from Hachette Book Group. Read more / order here: buff.ly/DKym75e

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I’ve just finished the Spring 2026 issue of The Southern Review, and Jennie Malboeuf’s “If Only” is the poem I keep returning to. A good issue has a way of sending you back into individual pieces again and again. Ask your local library to subscribe to The Southern Review: buff.ly/t1edAT2

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Just finished Third Coast Issue 55/56, and I’m reminded how much I love a journal issue that feels carefully gathered—work speaking across genres, moods, and obsessions. Read the latest issue: buff.ly/50FRlbg And ask your local library to subscribe to Third Coast.

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

ICYMI: "Another Man," the award-winning collection by UNCG Creative Writing alum Jim Whiteside, is now available for pre-order from the University of Wisconsin Press buff.ly/6jHiyPB

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Closed out the morning with Volume 67, Issue 2 of The Massachusetts Review, and Jaimee Hills’ poem “On Mistaking Flowers for Active Shooters” is still lingering in a way that resists easy summary—unsettling, precise, and hard to shake. Worth asking your local library to subscribe buff.ly/H4ZsE7m

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Just finished reading the latest from The Journal, and I’m carrying that good lit-mag feeling: a little unsettled, a little sharpened, and grateful for the editors putting these voices in conversation. Ask your local library to subscribe: buff.ly/Fw4lqYa

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

we are not that kind of country. We are sanctuary for the hungry, the homeless, the huddled, held together by an idea our immigrant fathers believed in. Rendered, it meant independence. from "There Are No Kings in America" by Aileen Cassinetto buff.ly/QTcvd7K

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