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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.
