We’re digging out rocks–my three-year-old son and I– from the bed by the house where we’ll plant impatiens. We toss the rocks into a wheelbarrow, his hands still plump and smooth, and together we rumble it deep into the woods behind our house. Now we roll it back empty, spirits high, sun warming our bare […]
Dannye Romine Powell
Dannye Romine Powell's fifth collection, "In the Sunroom with Raymond Carver," won the 2020 Roanoke-Chowan Award for the best book of poetry by a North Carolinian published that year. She's received fellowships from the NEA, the NC Arts Council and Yaddo.