What Our Voices Carry

What Our Voices Carry is Laurie Perry Vaughen's first significant collection of poems. The Tennessee poet is the recipient of the James Dickey Award from Emory University's Lullwater Review and the Amon Liner Award from the Greensboro Review. This chapbook collection pays close attention to place, with the title poem set in Italy. As the poet travels through time and place, she is not merely framing images from Slovenia, Iran, Egypt, America's Appalachia, or Haiti. Vaughen's poems elevate the lyric moment. Vaughen's collection, What Our Voices Carry, reveal an intimacy and vulnerability while avoiding the confessional form. Her poems elevate image and sound and do so with surprising turns.

Wild Columbine Press
2016