Joseph Bathanti

Joseph Bathanti is former Poet Laureate of North Carolina (2012-14) and recipient of the 2016 North Carolina Award for Literature. He is the author of seventeen books, including The 13th Sunday after Pentecost, a volume of poems, released by LSU Press in late 2016; and the  novel, The Life of the World to Come, from University of South Carolina Press in 2014. Bathanti is Professor of Creative Writing at Appalachian State University.

Concertina

Alias razor wire, fashioned after the free-reed, bellows-drive instrument, patented in 1884 by Sir Charles Wheatstone. Early in its history, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee was arranged for English concertina. Used as ramparts in WWI. You’ve seen archival photographs of … Continue reading