Poet Trio

A limited bundle of three books from Loblolly Press, each one rooted in the complexities of the South—its beauty, its contradictions, and its voices.

Poet Trio
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Featuring:

Distant Relations by Cheryl Whitehead

If Lost by Clint Bowman

Beasts of Chase by Andrew Mack

Together, these collections offer an intimate map of kinship, survival, and what it means to belong to a place on your own terms.

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Cheryl Whitehead is a teacher, musician, and poet from Snow Camp, North Carolina. Her chapbook,So Ghosts Might Stop Composing is available from Finishing Line Press. Her poems have appeared in Mezzo Cammin, The Hopkins Review, Crab Orchard Review and other journals. She has been a finalist for the New Letters and Morton Marr Poetry Prizes and the Unicorn Press First Book Award. She won an emerging artist grant from the Astraea Foundation and received scholarships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Quest Writers’ Conference and the North Carolina Writers’ Network. She currently teaches English at the Chatham Early College in Siler City, NC.

Clint Bowman is a native of Davidson County, North Carolina. His debut chapbook, Pretty Sh!t, was published in May 2023 by Bottlecap Press. Clint is the co-founder and facilitator of the Dark City Poets Society (DCPS) in Black Mountain, NC, where he currently lives with his family. When Clint isn't volunteering his time to the DCPS, he works as a recreation coordinator— leading hikes, river cleanups, trail workdays, and other outdoor programs.

What Others Are Saying

Hear what writers and readers think of Cheryl Whitehead, Clint Bowman, & Andrew Mack's Poet Trio.
Annie Woodford, On Cheryl Whitehead's Distant Relations

Within this vast, subtle lyric multiverse, plainspoken, austere motifs emerge and re-merge—horses, scarecrows, trailers, muscadines, fog, stars, fields—circling back, always circling back to human pain and mute yearning, yes, but also the redemptive mystery of nature and love.

Leah Hampton, On Clint Bowman's If Lost

If Lost offers us a starkly honest and rarely seen western North Carolina, with all its diverse species in bitter harmony… We cannot know what the future holds for this delicate region and its people, but these poems will keep you warm and light your way.

Sean Theodore Stewart, On Andrew Mack's Beasts of Chase

Beasts of Chase is the kind of collection that makes your hairs stand on end. It has you peering behind every tree, hungry for more of Mack's crisp language and well-researched insight. All the while, you can’t help looking over your shoulder because, as this quietly brutal cycle of poems reveals, the lines between hunter and hunted are not clean and none of us stand outside of the chase.

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Authentic, Southern Voices

Our carefully selected titles offer fresh, authentic voices and compelling stories that reflect the rich diversity and complexity of our region.