Valley Voices is a biannual journal of prose, poetry, interviews, and criticism from writers and scholars from the Mississippi Delta and beyond. The Fall 2025 issue includes the special features “Photographing Nature” by Jerome Berglund; “African American Tanka” by Kevin Powell, Lenard D. Moore, L. Teresa Church, Gideon Young, Opal Palmer Adisa, Tara Betts, S. Shaw, Charlie R. Braxton, and Gina Streaty; and Ce Rosenow’s review of Runagate: Song of the Freedom Bound by Crystal Simone Smith. Editor John Zheng in his introduction writes, “Editing an issue of Valley Voices is like an escape to nature or a way to forget the self.” The same experience awaits readers in the essays and criticisms of Howard Lee Kilby, Charlie R. Braxton, Bernth Lindfors, Carolyn Wilson-Scott, and Sydney Bowen-Sweet, and poetry by JC Alfier, Tobi Alfier, Matthew Brennan, Lenard D. Moore, Andrew Riutta, Jerome Berglund, Mike Spikes, Beth Brown Preston, Ron McFarland, Thomas Piekarski, George Freek, and Ken Letko.
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