Driving into the Deep South with my Demon and Other Poems

SIX SUTRAS
On Rereading the Buddha's Last Words     Office Hours  
R.O.T.C.                               
Spell                                                                   The Campus Cop
The Dancers                                              

BLOOD RELATIONS
Words for my Italian Grandfather          Grandmother at Christmas
W.O.E.A.H.
Driving into the Deep South with My Demon
Manassas

A BESTIARY
Fire Cat
Golf Course in February                                 The Lioness is Loose
Watching the Wild Chimps on Public TV

AT THE MOVIES
Action Movie
Notorious
Vertigo
Science Fiction-A Memory

TAROT READINGS
Death
The Magician
The Moon
The Sun
The Tower

POETS CORNER
Advice from Sharksteeth
Pastorale                                                          
Postmodern Poem     
The Summons
Wallace Stevens Walking to Work

SPIRITUAL EXERCISES
Diving into the Dead Sea
Good Friday Driving West Tennessee
Jubilo
Layover in O'Hare
On the Evening of the Rapture

LOVE CONQUERS
Fall Guy
Hooker
Centerfold 
Lifeguard                                                          One Hundred Years
Spring Dance
To My Unborn Daughter

MUSEUM PIECES
On Van Gogh's Wheatfields Under Clouds
Picturing Brueghel
The Genghis Khan Exhibit Comes to Music City
Adoration

FOLKLORE
Ethnography
King of Fire and Water
Local Legend
The Visitation
The Great Godeaux  

BIO                                                               Luke was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1962.  He attended the McCallie School, graduating as valedictorian in the class of 1980.  He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a John Motley Morehead Scholar, graduating with Honors in English in 1984.  He continued his studies at UNC, receiving a Master's degree in Folklore in 1986.  He then attended Vanderbilt University as a University Fellow.  He received his Ph.D. in English in 1990; the subject of his dissertation was the literary legacy of poet/visionary William Blake.  

Luke teaches English and Folklore at Tennessee State University, an historically black college in Nashville, Tennessee.  In 1996 he was recognized as Outstanding Teacher of the Year at TSU.  He currently lives in Franklin, Tennessee with his wife Jackie O'Keefe and their daughter Phoebe Claire. 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS                                Some of these poems have appeared in print publications such as The Vanderbilt Review, Trans: A Journal of Spiritual Discovery, Number One, In Other Words, Relationships, The Brownstone Review, Echoes: A Magazine of Creative Communication, Whispers in the Wind, Versus, The Cotton Boll/Atlanta Review. 

Others have appeared in online magazines such as Prairie Poetry <http://www.prairiepoetry.org>, The Art of Poetry <http://www.ariztlan.org>, Conspire <http://www.conspire.org>, The Melic Review <http://www.melicreview.com> and Poetry, Art & Word <http://www.poetry-n-word.com>.

ORDER                                                         Many of these poems appear in an illustrated chapbook entitled Spiritual Exercises, which is available for $10.00 plus $2.00 for shipping and handling.  To order, send check or money order for $12.00 made out to Luke Powers at the address below:

          Luke Powers

          c/o Phoebe Claire Publishing

          Tennessee State University

          P.O. Box 9523

          Nashville, TN 37209

You can contact Luke via the email address below:

mailto:lpowers@tnstate.edu