Sam Barbee
Sam Barbee's poems have appeared in Poetry South, The NC Literary Review, Crucible, Asheville Poetry Review, Main Street Rag, The Southern Poetry Anthology VII: North Carolina and online journals Vox Poetica, Courtland Review, and New Verse News. His second poetry collection, "That Rain We Needed" (2016, Press 53), was a nominee for the Roanoke-Chowan Award as one of North Carolina’s best poetry collections of 2016, and is a Pushcart nominee.