Ray McManus | Poet

Found Anew

The idea for this project is ingenious, and the result kept me mesmerized for hours. These gifted writers can be counted on to surprise and engage no matter the prompt. But otherwise rarely seen and fascinating historic photographs inspiring these particular imaginations—well—it more than doubles the pleasures.       — Susan Ludvigson

It would be enough for Found Anew to be a brilliantly and lovingly conceived and curated, tastefully and splendidly designed book, but it is more than that. It is filled with consistently urgent works of prose and poetry of the highest quality written by a gathering of some of the best writers working in this country today. Finally it features photographs that offer subtle and evocative flashes of South Carolinian history. This book deserves all the superlatives anyone can muster.     — Kwame Dawes

Contributors: Gilbert Allen, Sam Amadon, Laurel Blossom, Darien Cavanaugh, Phebe Davidson, Pam Durban, Julia Eliot, Worthy Evans, Richard Garcia, Will Garland, Linda Lee Harper, Terrance Hayes, Thomas L. Johnson, R. Mac Jones, Julia Koets, John Lane, Brett Lott, Ed Madden, Jonathan Maricle, Terri McCord, Janna McMahan, Ray McManus, Susan Laughter Meyers, Mark Powell, Michele Reese, Mark Sibley-Jones, George Singleton, Charlene Spearen, Daniel Nathan Terry, Jillian Weise, Marjory Wentworth, William Wright