On behalf of the Jasper Project, we’re delighted to announce that the following literary art was selected for inclusion in Fall Lines Volume X, releasing in spring 2024. These contributions were selected from several hundred poetry and prose submissions, and we couldn’t be happier to include them in this milestone tenth volume of Fall Lines – a literary convergence.
In early 2024 we will announce via the same website where and when we will hold our annual Fall Lines reading and awards ceremony, as well as the winners of the Saluda River Prize for Poetry, the Broad River Prize for Prose, and the Combahee River Prize in Poetry and Prose for a South Carolina Writer of Color.
Until then, congratulations and thank you for sharing your talents with the Jasper Project and allowing us to share them with the world.
Paul Toliver Brown – Digging to China
Allen Stevenson -- Shep’s Story
Bryan Gentry – Some People Never Change
Ruth Nicholson – The Red and Blue Box
Suzanne Kamata – Community Building
Evelyn Berry – Home Party
Randy Spencer – Next Day Now
Liz Newell – Red Hill Fans
Debra Daniel – Eve Purchases an Apple Watch
Shannon Ivey – As I Went Down to the River to Pray
Eric Morris – Straight Down Shadows
Lonetta Thompson – The Differences
Napoleon Wells – The Court of Thieves
Tshaka Campbell – Pews
Ann-Chadwell Humphries – Urban Eagle
Jacquelyn Markham – The persistence of limited memory & Storage
Brian Slusher – *Improv 101 & What else for you darlin?
Worthy Evans – *Blue Song for Bringing the Body Home & Blues Song for Never Having What I am Relative to Everybody Else
Rhy Robidoux –*Whereas
Nadine Ellsworth-Moran – *Nasturtium grows lush
Susan Craig – Migration & Treating our mother's last living friend
Heather Emerson – Divorce & Ceilings
Joshua Dunn – Clearing House
Candice Kelsey – Chainsaws & Renewable Energy
Terri McCord – Following a Blast
Randy Spencer – *Reading Ann’s Poem & In Passing
Debra Daniel – *Studies in Reproduction
Loli Munoz – Liminal
Frances Pearce – Strawberries
Ann Herlong-Bodman – One More
Jo Angela Edwins – A Neighbor Calls a Cool June Evening a Miracle
Kristine Hartvigsen – What I’ll pack for the apocalypse & Inagaddadavida
Al Black –*Meditations on the Lawh-i-Aqdas & Midnight Call to Prayer
Tim Conroy – Journeys
Jessica Hylton – Space
Amanda Warren – Divination Road
Danielle Ann Verwers—How was your day
Libby Bernardin – Ode to the Santee Delta & Ramble of thought as I read an article in the New York Times
Ellen Blickman --The Mystery of Pomegranates
Allison Cooke – Whippoorwill Elegy
Julie Ann Cook -- Into blue
Bryan Gentry – Hail, Fuse
Kelley Lannigan – Aubade
Gilbert Allen -- T**** IS PRESIDENT
Jane Zenger – Choices
Anna Ialacci – Ruined
Nicholas Drake – The Space Beside Her
Graham Duncan -- Exceptionalism
(* indicates finalists for the Saluda River Prize for Poetry)
Fall Lines - a literary convergence is made possible through a partnership between the Jasper Project, One Columbia for Arts and Culture, Richland Library, and the Friends of Richland Library.
