A poem by Colorado author Reggie Scott Young contemplating the masks of the pre-Civil War South.
Author Archives: Reggie Scott Young
Reggie Scott "Doc" Young is a current member of the Macondo Workshop's board. As a writer and scholar, he served as professor of creative writing and American literatures at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette after previous faculty positions at Villanova University, LSU, and Wheaton College. He is currently in the process of writing a memoir while living in Denver. His poems, stories, and works of nonfiction have appeared in Fifth Wednesday Journal, riverSedge, North Carolina Literary Review, Louisiana Literature, Oxford American, and African American Review. He served as guest-editor of Obsidian Literary Journal's special issue on novelist and poet Jeffery Renard Allen, and also co-edited Mozart and Leadbelly: Stories and Essays by Ernest J. Gaines. His volume of poems, Yardbirds Squawking at the Moon, is available from the University of Louisiana Press. His website can be viewed at www.rybluesville.com.
