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where despair runs deep & hope's embrace will keep my head above water is a curated anthology of contemporary voices from South Carolina-featuring both student and adult poets. Spanning Goose Creek, Summerville, North Charleston, downtown Charleston, and including a poet from the Columbia area, these poems hold space for grief, beauty, resistance, and renewal. The collection is divided into two parts: // we're learning to surface features poems by student writers navigating identity, emotion, and the glimmers of voice. // we carry what the water gave us gathers work from adult poets reflecting, reckoning, and remembering. Together, these sections lift up emerging youth alongside established local writers, offering an honest, genre-defiant look at what it means to be human here and now. With themes ranging from mental health to justice, memory to transformation, this book is a testament to the creative pulse of the Lowcountry-and to the way poetry gives language to what we're carrying. Featuring: Adyson Hallows Addison Edwards Abigail Sullivan Aniyah Martin Aziia Bailey Bri Miller Carrie Parker Ackerman Charlee Reed Cheyenne Hurst Conner Poss DaJenqiue McBee aka @Speak_nek Faith Walker Heather Rose Hero Howard Kaitlyn Johnson Keira Grantham Layle Keane Chambers Le'Mar Smalls Linda Joy Walder malarilesley Natasha Akery Sofie Williams William Lawrence Johnson Compiled by Marcus Amaker, Charleston, SC's first Poet Laureate and a South Carolina Literary Hall of Fame inductee.

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