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Sheri L. Wright Photo: Sheri L. Wright I follow the moon through Spanish moss and cypress, the song of nocturnals rippling across heat that stews summer long past its season. The eyes of shades – those of the lost and discarded – peer from underneath centuries and secrets stained black with death, trail after me […]

Sheri L. Wright Photo: “Who Are You?” by Sheri L. Wright He set Beargrass Creek in flames with stolen whiskey, something about fire-water, making a point, daring anyone to try and drink it now, but all he got was six months in jail for vandalizing public property. He told the judge that was the funniest […]

An Interview with Poet and Photographer Sheri L. Wright by Jasmina Tacheva Pushcart Prize nominee, Sheri L. Wright is the author of five books of poetry, including the most recent, The Slow Talk Of Stones. Her works of poetry appear in numerous journals including Out of Line, Chiron Review, Clark Street Review, Earth’s Daughters. She […]

Sheri L. Wright Photo: “Ladder” by Sheri L. Wright In 1942, NAZI propaganda spun from a reel of film shot in the Warsaw Ghetto, using the least emaciated prisoners as props to divert rumors of The Final Solution. They pose us together, I in my linens and plump cheeks with her, whoever she is – […]