The Trees Say Bad Idea: Three Poe...

The Trees Say Bad Idea: Three Poems

Readings From Salvation South by The Writers & Poets of Salvation South
S2026
Jul 10, 2026
03:16

Episode notes

Hear Charles Livesay read three poems: “My Mother’s Son,” “Hawks Won’t Wait,” and “Crappie Season Again.“

Charles Richard Livesay is a teacher from Knoxville, Tennessee. He has been published in Strange Horizons, Oh Reader, Pictura Journal, Rat’s Ass Review, and oddball magazine, among others. He watches birds, reads books, and sometimes forgets to take out his earbuds before he falls asleep. When that happens, Buck Owens haunts his dreams.

Keywords

East Tennessee
elegy
poetry
Southern poetry
fathers-and-sons
grief
Charles-livesay
mental-illness-in-families
mother-memory
Tennessee-writers