Al Maginnes
Al Maginnes is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently The Next Place (Iris Press). New or recent poems appear in North American Review, Natural Bridge, and San Pedro River Review. He is the music editor of the online journal Connotation Press and a member of Liberty Circus, a music and spoken word collective dedicated to raising funds for social justice. Al lives in Raleigh, North Carolina and teaches at Wake Technical Community College.
Reading List
Renewal
We are driving through our laments for what this town has become, almost lost though we turn routes so familiar I hardly need to steer. The clubs gutted to build shops and chain restaurants, the all-night diner where I once …
The World of Whiskey
The World of Whiskey “If the river was whiskey and I was a duck Might swim to the bottom, never come up” Traditional blues lyric Understand. The world was whiskey once, and dive we did, seeking the shifting bottom of …