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teri elam is a poet, essayist, and screenwriter. She has been a Two Sylvias Wilder Series Poetry Book Prize and Perugia Press finalist. Her poems have been published in Prairie Schooner, The Future of Black: Afrofuturism and Black Superheroes, Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology, and Kwame Alexander's This Is The Honey. Her poem "Counterpoint," about legendary jewel thief Doris Payne, received honorable mention in december magazine's Jeff Marks Memorial Prize contest. A Cave Canem and The Watering Hole Graduate Poetry Fellow, elam has film and poetry reviews and artist interviews in Birmingham Poetry Review, Heavy Feather Review, Callaloo, The Rumpus, Incluvie, and Rough Draft Atlanta. @terielam.stories
About the Book
Digging Beneath Bones, teri elam's debut poetry collection, moves through the Inner Banks of North Carolina, through backroads to I-20 West to Augusta, all the way to San Francisco streets, then back to Atlanta. These poems travel the long road of memory, lineage, rupture, and return. Through the voice of a Black Southern woman, they illuminate a body shaped by rites of passage, moving through the comfort and discomfort of relationships, family, truth, and self.
The collection explores memory and the mind as idea, need, and loss, tracing how personal and ancestral histories carve identity. It offers a vivid portrait of caretakers, aunties, nieces, and Black boy joy, revealing the everyday rituals: music, television, myth, prayer, and the small altars of daily life that hold meaning across generations.
At its core, Digging Beneath Bones is a daughter's love letter to her mother. Through a kaleidoscope of broken and brilliant fragments, elam shines light on the bits of beauty, ache, inheritance, and testimony. These poems invite readers to look beneath the surface, to witness the infinite shapes memory can take, and to consider how we hold what we come from.
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Layle Keane Chambers is an author and poet whose work examines the intersection of landscape and lived reality, particularly that of military families. She is the 2026 Elizabeth Boatwright Coker Fellow in Poetry, 2026 Colonel Darron L. Wright Memorial Writing Award Winner, and the Vice President of the Poetry Society of South Carolina. Holding Professor Emerita status from New Mexico State University, her writing has appeared in Collateral, The Wrath-Bearing Tree, Line of Advance, and Proud To Be: Writing by American Warriors, among others. She is the author of the chapbook Caught in the Light (Finishing Line Press) and the forthcoming collection BINGO ONE (July 2027), and lives in Folly Beach, South Carolina.
About the Book
Caught in the Light is a raw and unflinching exploration of a mother's journey as she watches her son dedicate himself to a life of service as an Air Force pilot. Layle Keane Chambers navigates a battle fought on the home front, where love and anxiety intertwine against a backdrop of global uncertainty. These poems illuminate the universal experience of letting go, weaving the personal with geopolitical realities and the quiet moments of family life with the stark realities of war. Through vivid imagery and emotional honesty, Caught in the Light reveals the silent sacrifices of military families, the constant negotiation between love and fear, and the enduring power of a mother's unwavering gaze, ultimately serving as testimony to the resilience of the human spirit, a call to find strength in looking up and the grace to become a lighthouse in a world of shifting currents.
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Ashley Logan (she/her) resides on a 3400-acre bird sanctuary in the woodlands of South Carolina with her husband, two stepchildren, as well as two dogs and a cat. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of South Carolina in 2010 and has been published in various magazines over the years. Her first collection, The World Goes Down Slow, and her latest release, A Body Made of Weather, were both #1 bestsellers of contemporary poetry. When not writing, she enjoys traveling, hiking and rock climbing, buying too many books (even reading some of them), as well as dabbling in photography.
About the Book
In A Body Made of Weather, Ashley Logan gathers a decade of poetry into a fierce, unflinching exploration of what it means to live inside a body that remembers everything. Moving through landscapes of trauma, longing, desire, and renewal, these poems grapple with the quiet violences we carry and the radical act of survival that follows. The voice here is both witness and participant—tender and savage, fractured and whole—tracing a path from silence toward articulation, from dispossession toward reclamation. Nature hums beneath every line: forests burn and regrow, tides recede to reveal what has been hidden, bodies learn to speak in the languages of weather, bone, and breath. Through it all, Ashley asks: What does it mean to belong to yourself? At once deeply personal and strikingly universal, A Body Made of Weather is a collection about becoming—about learning to listen inward, to hold grief without surrendering to it, and to live, finally, without asking permission.
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