Fire Sermons

by Raye Hendrix

Genres: Poetry

16 pages, ebook

Published July 1, 2021

About the author

Raye Hendrix is a writer from Birmingham, Alabama. Raye’s debut full-length collection of poetry, What Good Is Heaven, is forthcoming from Texas Review Press in in September 2024 in their Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series representing Alabama.

Raye is also the author of the chapbooks Every Journal is a Plague Journal (Bottlecap Press) and Fire Sermons (Ghost City Press). Raye is the winner of the Keene Prize for Literature (2019) and the Patricia Aakhus Award (Southern Indiana Review, 2018) and her poetry appears in The Journal, Poetry Northwest, Cimarron Review, 32 Poems, Birmingham Poetry Review, Poet Lore, and elsewhere.

Raye holds degrees from Auburn University, an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, and a PhD from the University of Oregon. They currently serve as the poetry editor of Press Pause Press and Co-Editor for DIS/CONNECT: A Disability Literature Column (Anomalous Press).

Reviews

[Kendall]

Devastatingly heavy, this micro-chap is a painful realization of how fragile this planet, and we are. Excellent.

[Gabby Gilliam]

This microchap will coat your tongue like ash and you'll find yourself going back for seconds even though it burns. Such a wonderful collection.

[J.M. Paden]

I loved every second of it.

[Zanna]

"blue ridge lookout" changed me fundamentally tbh