About Anna Journey and The Southern Review

Today's poem is "For the Actor Luke Perry, Who Chose to Be Buried in a Biodegradable Funeral Suit Infused with Mushroom Mycelia"

from The Southern Review

Anna Journey is the author of the poetry collections The Judas Ear (2022), The Atheist Wore Goat Silk (2017), and Vulgar Remedies (2013), all from LSU Press, and If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting (University of Georgia Press, 2009), which was selected by Thomas Lux for the National Poetry Series. She's also published the essay collection An Arrangement of Skin (Counterpoint, 2017). Her poems appear in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, FIELD, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. Journey has received fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Yaddo. She is an associate professor of English at the University of Southern California.
Other poems by Anna Journey in Verse Daily:
February 9, 2012: "Diagnosis: Birds in the Blood" "The hummingbird's nervous embroidery..."
March 14, 2011: "Sometimes a woman sets off alarms" "Sometimes a woman sets off alarms..." March 16, 2009: "Return as Black Currant" "Because she bleeds dark jelly and French liqueur..."
Books by Anna Journey:

Other poems on the web by Anna Journey:
Four poems
Four poems
"Mississippi: Origins"
"Unconditional Belief in Heat"
"One Year After My Move to California, I Jell-O Wrestle My Texan Past in a Dream"
"The Devil's Apron"
Two poems
"Leaving Texas"
"Upon Asking the Cashier at Kroger to Scan That Old Tattoo of a Barcode on My Forearm"
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Other from the Southern Review in Verse Daily:
September 25, 2021: "Fairy Tale" by Amorak Huey
September 14, 2021: "An Offense" by Lee Upton
September 13, 2021: "For the Actor Luke Perry, Who Chose to Be Buried in a Biodegradable Funeral Suit Infused with Mushroom Mycelia" by Bruce Bond
February 24, 2021: "Poem After Watching An Inconvenient Truth With My Students" by Emma Bolden
February 23, 2021: "Dad Poem" by Joshua Bennett
February 22, 2021: "Foal" by Maggie Smith
January 15, 2021: "Presumptive Elegy for Ken" by Paul Guest
January 14, 2021: "The Mechanical Eves" by Rebecca Morgan Frank
January 13, 2021: "After the Fire" by Jane Springer
August 28, 2020: "If/When" by Catherine Pierce
May 7, 2020: "Invitation to Tender" by Erika Meitner
May 6, 2020: "So Much for America" by Amaud Jamaul Johnson
April 23, 2020: "Scuttle" by John A. Nieves
November 11, 2019: "The Horn of Plenty Sits Empty" by Meghan McClure
November 10, 2019: "Only Autumn" by Barbara Swift Brauer
July 6, 2019: "Kick in the Jaw" Dan Albergotti
July 5, 2019: "Refraction at Twilight" Alice Friman
July 4, 2019: "The Father of Our Country" Kim Roberts
February 16, 2019: "Here, now, gone" Bob Hicok
August 24, 2017: Two poems by Stephen Gibson
August 22, 2017: "Virgule" by Michael McFee
August 21, 2017: "Where Another Lets Go" by Paul Hunter
October 28, 2015: "Driving to Work" by A. M. Brandt
July 25, 2014: "To the Stars through Difficulties" by Christina Olson
May 12, 2014: "The life-and-death world of carpentry" by Bob Hicok
May 6, 2014: "Some Math, Some Words" by Bob Hicok
May 4, 2014: "Affirmative Action Babies" by Erika Meitner
November 25, 2013: "Confession" by Carrie Shipers
November 24, 2013: "Penillion of Riding Past the Radio Astronomy Observatory Amid Hedges and Fields" by John Kinsella
November 23, 2013: "Under the Sun" by Chard deNiord
November 22, 2013: "Alligators" by Kevin Prufer
January 11, 2013: "Mothering" by Michael McCarthy
January 9, 2013: "Zombie Preparedness Plan" by Mary Jo Firth Gillett
January 8, 2013: "feeder" by Beth Bachmann
November 9, 2012: "Straw Poll" by Michael McFee
November 8, 2012: "Somehow, We Are a We" by Kimberly Grey
September 24, 2012: "Daily" by John A. Nieves
September 21, 2012: "Why Our Mothers Panic" by Sarah Kain Gutowski
February 19, 2012: "Elegy for a Game" by Mary Ruefle
February 16, 2012: "Words, what is the word, matter" by Bob Hicok
January 26, 2012: "Thames Music" by William Wenthe
September 23, 2011: "Questions about the Wife" by Rebecca Hazelton
September 22, 2011: "Coxwain" by Nance Van Winckel
November 13, 2010: "The Former Pirate on His Way Back to Lisbon" by Weston Cutter
May 27, 2010: "Dead Telegram to a Dead Poet" by Bruce Cohen
March 2, 2010: "Teaching 'The Red Wheelbarrow' the Thirtieth Time" by Wendy Barker
January 9, 2010: "Elegy as Spot's Lift-the-Flap Book" by Victoria Chang
January 8, 2010: "An Algebra of Fifty" by Catherine Abbey Hodges
September 12, 2009: "I Was Thinking of Beauty" by Sydney Lea
September 11, 2009: "Cosmonauts" by Rhett Iseman Trull
June 5, 2009: "Teaching Mrs. Dalloway I'm Thinking" by Weston Cutter
June 3, 2009: "Rain on the Roof" by Beverley Bie Brahic
June 2, 2009: "Questions about Birds" by Billy Collins
February 20, 2009: "Holidays and Sundays" by David Bottoms
November 21, 2008: "Approaching Thunder" by Amaud Jamaul Johnson
November 20, 2008: "Patterns" by Theodore Worozbyt
August 29, 2008: "A Convincing Story" by Beth Bretl
August 28, 2008: "Siren Song for Late September" by Alice Friman
August 27, 2008: "Scavengers" by Fleda Brown
August 26, 2008: "Settle" by Chanda Feldman
May 11, 2008: "Midden" by Brendan Galvin
February 3, 2008: "Hordes of Indigent Psychologist" by Scott Coffel
January 29, 2008: "Runaway Bride" by Allison Seay
November 10, 2007: "Columba livia" by Sandra Meek
November 9, 2007: "Poltergeist" by Jennifer Metsker
November 6, 2007: "A celebration of lasting achievment" by Bob Hicok
August 5, 2007: "Be the Dog" by J. Allyn Rosser
August 2, 2007: "Haruspicy" by Sarah Hannah
June 6, 2007: "Not Mattering to the Earth" by Colette Inez
June 5, 2007: "Something in My Eye" by Allison Smythe
February 9, 2007: "Mysterious Ways" by Alison Pelegrin
September 15, 2006: "God of The" by Garrett Doherty
September 14, 2006: "One Morning a Rose Blooms" by Richard Tillinghast
September 13, 2006: "Aubade" by Rhoda Janzen
June 22, 2006: "Trouble." by Melissa Stein
June 19, 2006: "Love of Sport" by Bob Hicok
January 19, 2006: "Key to Pronunciation: /sälm/" by Rita Mae Reese
January 17, 2006: "Leaving the Land" by Stephen C. Behrendt
January 16, 2006: "The Clown's Mother" by Brent Pallas
November 25, 2004: "Founder's day" by Bob Hicok
November 24, 2004: "In Thrush Light" by Gyorgyi Voros
November 23, 2004: "To Acedia" by Daniel Tobin
November 22, 2004: "Close Quarters" by Cathryn Essinger
September 25, 2004: "Dry Brush Painting of Winter Crows" by Barry Sternlieb
September 23, 2004: "James McNeill Whistler at St. Ives, 1883" by Floyd Skloot
September 22, 2004: "Keep and Give Away" by Susan Meyers
September 21, 2004: "The Wife of Job" by Morri Creech
September 20, 2004: "Indian River Inlet" by Fleda Brown
March 10, 2004: "See! I Will Not Forget You. I Have Carved You on the Palm of My Hand." by Thomas Reiter
March 9, 2004: "Mary Rockwell Talks to Her Son in the Hospital after He's Been Stabbed During a Fencing Lesson" by Julianna Baggott
August 20, 2003: "Water Rising" by Fleda Brown
August 19, 2003: "Neither the Season, nor the Place" by Susan Meyers
August 18, 2003: "Revival" by Lynn Powell
June 7, 2003: "The Reliquary" by Ann Townsend
June 5, 2003: "Hieronymus and the Lion" by Maurya Simon
June 3, 2003: "Pink Salmon" by Cecily Parks
May 1, 2003: "Heron" by John Drury
April 29, 2003: "For the Fog Horn When There Is No Fog" by Sarah Hannah
December 30, 2002: "Brains" by Rodney Jones
December 16, 2002: Heaven by Natasha Saje
September 9, 2002: "My Emotions Are Like Fish" by John Brehm

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