In the latest installment of our minisode series, Poetry Corner, Kendra Winchester is joined by upfromsumdirt.

Things Mentioned

• Read Appalachia Newsletter

Books Mentioned

• The Second Stop Is Jupiter: Poems by upfromsumdirt
• The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife by upfromsumdirt
• Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
• None But the Righteous by Chantal James
• The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories by Bruno Schulz
• The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin
• The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
• African Myths of Origin edited by Stephen Belcher
• Unravel: Poems by Tolu Oloruntoba

Guest Info

upfromsumdirt, aka Ronald W. Davis, is an autodidactic poet, visual artist, and designer from Louisville, Kentucky. He is the illustrator of A Is for Affrilachia and the NAACP Image Award–winning Perfect Black. He is the author of many chapbooks and the full-length collections The Second Stop Is Jupiter: Poems, To Emit Teal, and Deifying a Total Darkness.

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