Austin Segrest
Hailing from Alabama and Georgia, Austin Segrest is a PhD candidate at University of Missouri and poetry editor of The Missouri Review. His poems appear in The Yale Review, New England Review, The Threepenny Review and many others.
Reading List
Merrymount
Standish sacked Merrymount and drove the heathens out. Not to be outdone, Endicott the iconoclast came for the crumbs, leveling what was left of a maypole on its hill. I remember in darksome Devonshire many a maid in May wound …
Searoom
Mr. Warham’s first sea storm I sat with him in his chambers. We read together the Psalm about them that go down to the sea in ships. He was far he said, looking green, from having list to sleep with …
Pickett’s History of Alabama
Rugged individualism? Sure, but long gone corporate, plus the Dutch and French, and the Spanish before them settling around the ports and islands. For many years the enterprise is reliant on native shipments and trade with natives. Forests and swamps, …