＂Found Anew is an anthology of new poetry and prose from writers with strong ties to the Palmetto State that creatively engages with historical photographs found in the digital collections of
the University of South Carolina’s South Caroliniana Library. In their eclectic approach to ekphrasis--textual response to the visual--editors R. Mac Jones and Ray McManus have recruited an
impressive group of poets and fiction writers, including National Book Award-winning poets Terrance Hayes and Nikky Finney (whoprovides the foreword); their fellow South Carolina Academy of
Authors honorees Gilbert Allen, John Lane, Bret Lott, George Singleton, and Marjory Wentworth; Lillian Smith Award-winner Pam Durban, and others. These thirty-one pairings of archival images
with original creative responses illustrate the breadth and richness of the diverse talents of South Carolina writers. While the digital collections are a much-valued resource for researchers
and educators, Found Anew encourages a wider use as a source ofinspiration for writers and artists inventing narratives set in and about South Carolina. In coupling the poems and short stories
with the images that inspired them, the anthology shows writers gauging unlikely depths in curious photographs that other eyes might pass over without a second glance, conjuring perfect words
for the emotion evoked by a particular image, and rendering and reimagining the visual in seemingly disparate but ultimately linked narratives. An instructive model for active, collaborative
engagement between creative writers and culturally significant visual prompts, this collection also serves to demonstrate the accessibility and scope of archival photography available through
South Caroliniana’s digital collections. Through these creative responses, the images are not recovered or explained--but, rather, found anew. Contributors: Gilbert Allen, Sam Amadon, Laurel
Blossom, Darien Cavanaugh, Phebe Davidson, Pam Durban, Julia Eliot, Worthy Evans, Richard Garcia, Will Garland, Linda Lee Harper, Terrance Hayes, Thomas L. Johnson, R. Mac Jones, Julia Koets,
John Lane, Brett Lott, Ed Madden, Jonathan Maricle, Terri McCord, Janna McMahan, Ray McManus, Susan Laughter Meyers, Mark Powell, Michele Reese, Mark Sibley-Jones, George Singleton, Charlene
Spearen, Daniel Nathan Terry, Jillian Weise, Marjory Wentworth, William Wright＂--
