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Celebrating women in my life with poems – and a little banjo

May 10, 2012 By Kory Leave a Comment

With Mother’s Day almost upon us, it seems a good time to share a couple of poems I've recently published celebrating two of the many marvelous women in my life. The first poem is "Our Spirits Shall Sorrow No More." Available in both print and audio here in Deep South Magazine, it's about my grandmother - known as "Mamaw" to multiple generations of my family - but if you grew up in the South or Appalachia, it may remind you of your mama or granny, too. I think Mamaw would particularly … [Read more...]

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KORY WELLS is the author of Sugar Fix, poetry from Terrapin Books (September 2019), and the poetry chapbook Heaven Was the Moon from March Street Press. Her writing has been featured on The Slowdown from American Public Media, won the 2023 Flash Creative Nonfiction Contest at Blue Earth Review, and appears in Christian Science Monitor, The Southern Poetry Anthology, The Strategic Poet, and elsewhere.

When she’s not writing, the former software developer advocates for democracy, afternoon naps, and other good causes. A seventh generation Tennessean, she has served as the inaugural poet laureate of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and mentors poets across the nation through the from-home creative writing program MTSU Write. She's also the principal founder of Poetry in the Boro and a co-producer of the quarterly storytelling-based Bloom Stage with Kara J. Kemp. Learn more