Lucien Darjeun Meadows
Lucien Darjeun Meadows was born in Virginia. His poetry has appeared in Poetry Daily, Narrative, and Beloit Poetry Journal. An AWP Intro Journals Project winner, he has received nominations for the Pushcart Prize, recognition from the Academy of American Poets, and a 2017 scholarship to the Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers Conference. Lucien lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Reading List
Monongalia County, West Virginia
Red dirt never washes away—blue hills Pocked by long grey scars from mines and slurry Pools trembling, always, over someone’s home, Some holler’s elementary school, green rivers, Blue, brown rivers all running toward the old New, Its deep gorge filled …
To Grandmother’s Body
after Mari L’Esperance Of blue hills with faces pillowed in cloud. Of mines. Your daddy’s lunchbox. A gold bird Unlatching a song for no one left to hear. Of water. Kanawha brown, Monongahela blue, The Cheat and the New. Saying …