"Yes, there is barbecue, but that’s just one course of the meal. With Vinegar and Char the Southern Foodways Alliance celebrates twenty years of symposia by offering a collection of poems that are by turns as sophisticated and complex, as vivid and funny, and as buoyant and poignant as any SFA gathering.The roster of contributors includes Natasha Trethewey, Robert Morgan, Atsuro Riley, Adrienne Su, Richard Blanco, Ed Madden, Nikky Finney ..."
Forage by RoseMclarney 80 Pages, Published 2019 by Penguin ISBN-13: 978-0-525-50497-9, ISBN: 0-525-50497-4
"In her third collection, Forage, she continues to weave together themes she loves: home, heritage, the South, animals, water, the environment."
Forage (Penguin Poets) by RoseMclarney Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2019 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-313319-3, ISBN: 0-14-313319-5
"A poet acclaimed for "uncompromising, honest poems that sound like no one else" (The Rumpus) now offers considerations of the natural world and humans' place within it in ecopoetry of both ambitious reach and elegant refinementRose McLarney has won attention as a poet of impressive insight, craft, and a "constantly questioning and enlarging vision" (Andrew Hudgins). In her third collection, Forage, she continues to weave together themes ..."
Its Day Being Gone (National Poetry Series) by RoseMclarney Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2014 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-312657-7, ISBN: 0-14-312657-1
"Selected as a winner of the National Poetry Series by Robert Wrigley Rose McLarney has won acclaim for image-rich poems that explore her native southern Appalachia and those who love and live and lose on it. Her second collection broadens these investigations in poems that examine the shape-shifting quality of memory, as seen in folktales that have traveled across oceans and through centuries, and in how we form recollections of our own ..."
"Set in the Appalachian landscape, Rose McLarney’s debut collection, The Always Broken Plates of Mountains, gives voice to a chorus of speakers, who are at once plainspoken, reverent, and musical. “There is a tenderness that persists” as McLarney explores mountain land and those who live and love and lose on it, and what it means to be faithful―to oneself, to one’s heritage, and to one another."
Is My Hamster Wild? The Secret Lives of Hamsters, Gerbils & Guinea Pigs by RoseMclarney, Rain Newcomb Hardcover, 48 Pages, Published 2008 by Lark Books ISBN-13: 978-1-60059-242-3, ISBN: 1-60059-242-2
"Everyday pet or wild creature? When we think of hamsters, we imagine them domesticated, in cages, running around on exercise wheels. But did you know that they, along with some very close relatives, also live in the wild? From gerbils in Africa to guinea pigs in South America, these popular creatures are found all over the world. This newest volume in Lark’s superb science serieswhich includes the award-winning Is My Dog a Wolf?lets k ..."
"Getting acquainted with local flora and fauna is the perfect way to begin to understand the wonder of nature. The natural environment of Southern Appalachia, with habitats that span the Blue Ridge to the Cumberland Plateau, is one of the most biodiverse on earth. A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia―a hybrid literary and natural history anthology―showcases sixty of the many species indigenous to the region.Ecologically, cultura ..."