Art by Kimberly Witham

[McLarney] writes uncompromising, honest poems that sound like no one else…"
-The Rumpus

Her important poems sing...with the lyric wisdom of the best poetry.” 
-Andrew Hudgins

"One of the finest mythmakers in contemporary Appalachian letters is Rose McLarney."
-The Millions

“I think, for now anyway, the momentum of southern poetry is with female poets: Ellen Bryant Voigt, Natasha Trethewey, the late Claudia Emerson, and now, perhaps, Rose McLarney.”
-Blue Stem

McLarney makes things matter. Her poems make you feel very deeply connected--under the skin, in the bone--and therefore more acutely alive.”  
-Robert Wrigley