Muscadine Binding:Paperback and our relationship with the

and our relationship with the unseen and the uncanny

arguing for the central role of art and intellectual culture in an age of widening inequality and moral crisis

The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America

The book won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award

Bear Bryant

Muscadine Binding:Paperback and our relationship with theA. H. Jerriod Avants debut collection, Muscadine, cultivates the vine of familial memory, eulogizing our collective losses while exalting the succor of this human life, how the native grapes thick skin [that] teeth pierce breaks to pour sweetly across the tongue. Throughout these pages, a deeply Southern sensibility balances an environmental awareness of deficit and bounty appetite pains the stomach and delights the palette. In all seasons, the