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Lou Turner is a writer and musician (Styrofoam Winos, Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band) based in Nashville, TN. She holds an MFA in poetry from Randolph College and is the author of the chapbook Shape Note Singing (VA Press, 2021) as well as the editor of Quarter Notes, a literary magazine with a musical ear. Turner was a 2023 recipient of a solo artist residency from The Cabins, as well as a recipient of a Nashville Metro Arts Thrive Grant. The 2024 winner of The Porch Prize in Poetry, recent poems have appeared in OEI's Aural Poetics issue, Voicemail Poems, The Continental Review, EcoTheo, and elsewhere. Turner's latest solo record Microcosmos (SPINSTER) was named a Best Album of 2022 by NPR Music's Ann Powers. Twin Lead Lines called ""a veritable feat in symphonic composition"" by Diana Khoi Nguyen is her first book.
""These meticulously lyrical poems serve not only as auto-ethnographic lenses through which we can see both Little Jimmy Dickens being examined, but also the person doing the looking and the listening: the poet is steady, stable, startlingly vulnerable. At times, this work reminds me of the poetic documentations of M. NourbeSe Philip and Desiree C. Bailey. These poems are exquisitely fashioned and rewire lines like recombinant DNA: the same letters can generate a totally (and tonally) different sound and meaning. This book is a veritable feat in symphonic composition."" – Diana Khoi Nguyen “Like the bird’s nest in the VALERO sign, / I’ve been making home in the O’s I can find,” writes Lou Turner in her astounding poetry collection, Twin Lead Lines. In these euphonious poems, Turner reaches out to the past—to Little Jimmy Dickens—to present beloveds, and to the future. This is a book that demands to be read and reread. Go ahead, turn back to page one and find yourself “bootscootin’ through eternity again.” – Paige Lewis
Out of the depths
The first collection of Holocaust...
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