Collaborations

Rose contributed three poems to Killing the Negative, a project of artist Joel Daniel Phillips and writer Quraysh Ali Lansana. While looking through Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographs from the Great Depression, Phillips stumbled upon a 1936 photograph by Walker Evans with a gaping black hole in the center. This chance discovery of a “killed negative” led to the creation of a touring exhibit and a book--and a complex exploration of the intersections of representation, truth, and power.

Publishing Prose

Rose’s newest essays, “Storied” and “Negative” appear in Ecotone and Bluestem. Several of her essays are available online: "Another Inscrutable House" in Annulet: A Journal of Poetics,  "Weights and Measures," in Shenandoah, "Blue Prints" in Blackbird, and her contribution to "Lay of the Land" in Orion. Others have recently appeared in Seneca Review, The Common, Cutbank, and Global South.

Editing Projects

A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, which Rose co-edited with Laura-Gray Street and L. L. Gaddy, was included in Barbara Kingsolver’s recommended books in an article in The New York Times.

As editor of Southern Humanities Review and in collaboration with the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Art at Auburn University and Alabama poet laureate Ashley M. Jones, Rose was a part of creating “as if we are here meeting eye to eye.” This poetry feature, which takes its title from a poem by Kwoya Fagin Maples, is a collection of works created in response to the photography of RaMell Ross, a visual artist whose objects explore the Black Experience, particularly in relation to the American South.

And Rose is happy to announce the winner of SHR’s 2023 Witness Poetry Prize, judged this year by Joy Harjo: Samyak Shertok. Read more here.