By J Frank Jamison
Songs of Unsung People
Poetry
Tennessee Author
J Frank Jamison
His shorter works have appeared in numerous literary journals, including Appalachian Heritage, Nimrod, Fox Cry, Poem, Red Wheel Barrow, Sanskrit, The Tennessee English Journal, South Carolina Review, Atlanta Review, Iodine, Confluence, Big Muddy, Illuminations, and others.
His poems have won the Robert Burns/Terry Semple Memorial Poetry Prize and the Libba Moore Gray Poetry Prize. He has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
His most recent short story, Catfish, an excerpt from his novel The Town Upstairs appeared in Arkana. You can read it here.
A second short story, The Funeral, also an excerpt from the same novel appeared in The Penmen Review. You can read it here.
Frank’s story, The Violin recently appeared in Literally Stories.
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Marginal Notes
It is in the ‘in between’ that life is understood. Margins and interstices are the filters and lenses through which we see. They shape our understanding. In the edge worlds between light and dark, night and day; beside sea, stream and river where worlds of air, land and water come together, we find metaphors of life. If we care and dare to look, we may even see ourselves.
Songs of Unsung People
There is in each of us a fragment of the unsung, the discounted as well as the exalted. Like the people in these poems, we inhabit a landscape that is real and ancient and magical and filled with stories.