Dr. Raye

@rayehendrix.bsky.social

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Poet ★ Author of What Good Is Heaven (Texas Review Press, 2024) & two poetry chapbooks ★ American Lit & Disability Studies PhD ★ capricorn ★ insufferable Auburn fan ★ Lefty Teacher in Tennessee ★ linktr.ee/raye.hendrix

Hi Raye, Ready? Set? Go! CONGRATULATIONS! After much deliberation over incredibly high-quality submissions, I'm pleased to share that your book, What Good is Heaven, has won the 2024 Weatherford Award for the Best Poetry book about Appalachia. Congratulations to EVERYONE who helped! btw, Here is a link so you can see the esteemed company that you now keep. If you scroll to the bottom & click "past winners" you'll behold the 55 year tradition of which are now a part! The Weatherford Awards are given by Berea College and the Appalachian Studies Association annually to honor books that “best illuminate the challenges, personalities, and unique qualities of the Appalachian South.” The three categories recognized are fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The conferring of this annual $500 award in each of the three categories has come to be recognized as a major Appalachian event.
Howdy friends! Tomorrow is my birthday and there are a couple things that would be a gift for me! First, there’s a lot of pain in this world right now, and I would love it if you donate, if you’re able, to fundraisers benefitting Palestine, Sudan, LA, or another group in need! Second, it would mean the world to me if you’d buy my book, request it at your libraries, write a review, or just tell your friends & enemies about it! Publishing a book is a really vulnerable experience, as is asking for this kind of support, but it’s what a poet’s gotta do, baby! Links to fundraisers I like + book stuff in my bio! Thanks for being on this ride with me!
A gray and white graphic sharing dates for Raye's "What Good Is Heaven" Spring 2025 book tour. January 5th: Malaprop's Bookstore in Asheville, NC. January 17: Burdock Book Collective in Birmingham, AL. March 26-29: AWP Conference in Los Angeles, CA. May 28: Read Denver in Denver, CO.
Acceptable Losses by Raye Hendrix after the 2024 election Halloween in Texas and a mother dresses her daughter and her daughter’s stillborn daughter in the costumes of the living: beautiful dresses, gold jewelry, painful shoes to impress the unnecessary audience of dark. In Tennessee, the floodwaters are still receding, changing the map. Across the world in Palestine they draw a border like a fate-thread, America lending a knife. After the election, my mother says try not to think of it as hate while in Alabama my brother peels a Pride flag from his bumper like a scar and a soldier at the edge of Arizona guts a hidden stash of water, imagining a child. My father says it’s the economy, a desperate people. And after all, what is love to the god of property. Nothing personal. Just good business. A loan.
A "preorder now" infographic in red, gray, and black for Raye's book, What Good Is Heaven.
An infographic in red, gray, and white displaying the cover of Raye's book, titled "What Good Is Heaven," and the announcement: Coming September 2024. Preorders opening in April.
Raye at AWP Reading: The Pinch & American Literary Review / Saturday, Feb. 10 at noon at The Big Rip Brewing Co: 216 E 9th Ave, North Kansas City, MO 64116 Panel: "Not Just Surviving: Queer Poets Thriving in the Red / Saturday, Feb. 10 at 3:20 until 4:35 PM / KC Convention Center Room 2103B ...& just generally zoomin around, vibing
A flyer advertising the annual Birmingham Poetry Review reading series event. The featured poets are: Carlson Colenbaugh, L.S. McKee, and Raye Hendrix. The reading will be on Zoom on Thursday, March 21, at 6 PM Central Time.
Raye (left) and their partner Jacob (right) at age 16. They stand against a blue background, and Raye holds silver pom-poms and wears a tiara while Jacob wears a blue football jersey with the number 55.
Raye's hand holding up a printer paper copy of their book, "What Good Is Heaven," binder-clipped together. A prism is casting a rainbow pattern over the title and Raye's name.
Raye, a white feminine person with auburn hair, wears a black leather jacket and stands in front of a black background.
A small, wooden cabin set into the side of a lush, green ravine.