Joshua Martin received his doctorate in literature and creative writing from Georgia State University in 2020. He is the author of “Earth of Inedible Things” (Jacar Press, 2021), which won the Jacar Press Book Award judged by Afaa Michael Weaver. He has published poems or has poems forthcoming in Atlanta Review, December, The Florida Review Online, Baltimore Review, Rattle, Carolina Quarterly, Salamander, Potomac Review, Nashville Review, and elsewhere. He recently won a Tennessee Williams Scholarship to the 2021 Sewanee Writers’ Conference.
First Grill
Overused, grates still crusted with trimmings, it wasn’t much but a dented Weber picked up at a yard sale north of Jackson, a yard I remember because there were children’s books scattered in the weeds and dolls missing their legs but no one around my age, and though for fifteen cents you could take home …