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Shelby Stephenson
A freezing cold winter day, a disemboweled 250-pound hog hangs over a vat of hot water in the farmyard. The carcass will be scalded and scraped clean. A few neighbors…
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Our World, by North Carolina Poet Laureate Shelby Stephenson, is a love letter to his wife, Nin, and to the homestead where he was born and on which he still…
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Shelby Stephenson shares family history of this ancestral home in Eastern North Carolina, where he still lives, across the road from his family cemetery that includes the unmarked graves of…
Amor vincit omnia: So the proverb goes. In Nin’s Poem Shelby Stephenson dramatizes the truth that love conquers all in a compelling cascade of monologues, dialogues, and appeals to the…
Shelby Stephenson can walk out his back door-even in his sleep, it seems, so tithed to the land is his subconscious-and see what lies hidden before our very eyes: in…
In Elegies for Small Game, Shelby Stephenson continues his celebration of place, family, and memory. But here there is a new eloquence and authority of rhyme and ballad form, with…
Shelby D Stephenson
In Shelby Dean Stephenson's latest collection of poetry from the farm listen to the characters of Paul's Hill sing in the verses. Cow Mire Songs is a delightful blend of…