Rose McLarney
Rose McLarney’s collections of poems are Its Day Being Gone, winner of the National Poetry Series, and Forage, forthcoming, both from Penguin Books, and The Always Broken Plates of Mountains, published by Four Way Books. She is coeditor of A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, forthcoming from University of Georgia Press. She is associate professor of creative writing at Auburn University and coeditor in chief and poetry editor of the Southern Humanities Review.
Reading List
Weights and Measures
The racehorse crossing the line shining clean because he never had to see another step in front of him, kicking back mud, who the viewers never for a moment had to consider in a position that wasn’t first—that’s how he thought of himself. I always came out ahead, he said. My grandfather, who we are […]