On Sunday, Oct. 27, the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville hosted the 10th annual Josie Music Awards (the JMAs), a music awards ceremony that honors the best in the independent music industry.

Author of numerous collections of poetry, including The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems (winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize), The Errancy (named by the New York Times as one of the “Notable ...