Poem of the day for Aug 14, 07, at poems.com is David Havird's "The Horse on Zennor Hill, as published by the Sewanee Review.
Havird teaches English at Centenary College and his poetry is widely published: he's been in the New Yorker, Poetry magazine, Southwest Review, Shenandoah and elsewhere.
If you remember the late novelist-poet James Dickey and his visit to Shreveport and Centenary College, you'll have a bit of background on Havird. Both hail from South Carolina. And when the lierary Lion, Dickey, said he would visit Shreveport, Havird knew that a vist to Shiloh Baptist Church, near Mooringsport, would be tout le tout. Seems Dickey played guitar. And some of what he knew about Louisiana came from recordings made by Huddie Ledbetter, aka Leadbelly, laid to rest at Shiloh.
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