the shotgun shells dropped outside the market roll unspent and certain in the wind
The Spring 2008 issue of Blackbird, VCU’s online journal of literature and the arts, has a few poems by local writer a Joshua Poteat “that involve Church Hill and the surrounding area. They’re kind of downers, and strange [...]“. Check’em out.
joshua, i just read “memorial department”. god damn, that’s a great poem! our little world of 24th street is linked to many others now, before and beyond. you got the word, man.
Joshua Poteat is a wonderful poet. For more gorgeous poems buy his book, “Ornithologies,” down at Fountain Books in Shockoe Slip. Joshua, can you sign my book?
Thanks for your support, you guys! You are very sweet. I would be happy to sign anything you want, especially the book!