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“Best of 2025” at Salvation South: Andy Fogle and Chuck Reece name their No. 1 poems of the year—Jacqueline Allen Trimble’s blues-soaked elegy and F. Dylan Waguespack’s searing hymn for a homeless father—alongside two deep walks through the Southern verse that moved us most.

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Gaggers: Mahlia Ghetto

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