The Southern Collective Experience

03/12/2026

New The Southern Collective Experience brother, Lee Herrick.

Lee Herrick is the California Poet Laureate. He is also the first CAPL to be reappointed to a second term. He is the author of four books, most recently In Praise of Late Wonder: New and Selected Poems (2024). He co-edited The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on…

03/11/2026

Red Phone Booth Buckhead is where The Southern Collective Experience founder Charles Clifford Brooks III calls home away from home.

A great night out isn’t about having endless options, it’s about choosing the one that always works. When the environment is right, the rest takes care of itself.

Experience a speakeasy in Atlanta where the details are already dialed in so you can just focus on the moment.

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02/25/2026

It’s true, beautiful people.

02/24/2026

Proud new member of The Southern Collective Experience, Nafkote Tamirat.

Nafkote Tamirat (she/her) is a novelist, short story writer, teacher, and translator. An Ethiopian-American who was raised in Boston and now lives in Paris, her goal as a writer and teacher is to help amplify the unique storytelling voices and styles of writers from multiple linguistic, cultural, an...