Austin Segrest
Originally from Alabama, Austin Segrest is finishing his PhD in poetry at the University of Missouri. His poems have appeared recently in The Yale Review, Copper Nickel, and The Southwest Review,and are forthcoming in Harvard Review and Western Humanities.
Reading List
Election
Dorchester Neck, 1665 Bent over a breeched calf, rain spinning off the placenta, I didn’t see the waves net the millpond to cut me off from shore. The black hound Luther yipped across the chasm. Lightning smote the islands. I …
The Federal Road
Say our man is pissed—literally, he’s pissed himself, thrown from the trunks where he and five others clung. Towering pine-light, his top hat smashed— the other passengers yell for the driver. “Yellibama,” he remembers a wagonload of slaves calling it, …