Sam Barbee has a new collection, Apertures of Voluptuous Force (2022, Redhawk Publishing)  He has three previous poetry collections, including That Rain We Needed (2016, Press 53), a nominee for the Roanoke-Chowan Award as one of North Carolina’s best poetry collections of 2016.  A two-time Pushcart nominee, his poems recently appeared in Salvation South, Verse Virtual, and Grand Little Things.