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As part of the Sanctuaries issue, we thought we'd feature some local poets.  Poetry has long been a source of solace for so many.  Reading poetry is an introspective process -- we read poetry to get a glimpse of the world or live into a situation that goes beyond personal experience, shedding new light on our own lives.  Below is a PDF link to a piece by our second poet.  Need to catch up?  Click Here to read about our first poet, Jim Murphy.

Matthew Layne is a native of Birmingham.  He received a Hackney Award from Birmingham-Southern College’s Writing Today conference in 1995.  He is also the recipient of a Career Award in Literature for 1998 from the National Society of Arts & Letters.

He writes and performs his poetry around the Southeast and has long been active in cultivating a vibrant community of poets in Birmingham.  He most recently emceed a monthly poetry reading the now defunct Green Cup Books on the Southside of Birmingham.  He also emcees the annual Day of the Dead Festival on November 2nd each year in downtown Birmingham.  Matt is currently working on his Masters in Library and Information Studies at the University of Alabama.

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Poems by Matt Layne

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