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Porch Pickin’ People

A Collection of Southern Poetry

“The front porch was the stage for porch pickers. The front yard was the auditorium. The fence row corn with ears and neighbors who gathered to hear homemade instruments talking, gnarled fingers walking, old frets gawking at the end of day at people and songs telling stories with their own punctuation. Vicki H. Moss has captured this place in time. There are writers and then there are writers. She is a ‘and then there are writers’ and has painted a picture of days gone by for your mind so they will never fade away.” Margaret Britton Vaughan, Tennessee Poet Laureate

Times in the South were struggling times before and after the Civil War on up to WWII. Sometimes the weather didn’t cooperate with the farmers who plowed fields near the Tennessee River that sometimes overflowed her banks before Tennessee Valley Authority built dams to check angry waters. But throughout all of the hard times, families survived and thrived. They played their music. Lived and loved. And sometimes mourned while holding on to the faith they brought with them across the Atlantic ocean in the 1600’s. This collection of poems by Author Vicki H. Moss was created from snippets passed down through the generations—shared by porch pickin’ people from Tennessee and Alabama.

ISBN 978-1-60495-103-5  

102 Pages