I Heard Them All Speak
Alabama Poet Laureate Ashley M. Jones creates entire worlds in three new poems and affirms the power of poetry to help us see others and ourselves.
By Ashley M. Jones
Poetry
I Heard Them All Speak
Alabama Poet Laureate Ashley M. Jones creates entire worlds in three new poems and affirms the power of poetry to help us see others and ourselves.
By Ashley M. Jones /
Poetry
Just the Right Amount of Sunflowers
Three dazzling new poems by Mississippian C.T. Salazar, and an interview on binaries, ecologies, and the mysteries of time.
By C.T. Salazar /
Editor's Corner
Taylor Swift Didn’t Talk to Our Southern Poets
Tay Tay says poets are “tortured.” Jacqueline Allen Trimble turns that assumption inside out.
By Chuck Reece /
Poetry
What It’s Like to Live Here
Veteran South Carolina poet Ray McManus, the winner of the 2023 Governor’s Award for the Arts, writes beautifully about rural life—from boar hogs to pickup trucks to the hunger that won’t go away.
By Ray McManus /
Poetry
Just the Right Amount of Sunflowers
Three dazzling new poems by Mississippian C.T. Salazar, and an interview on binaries, ecologies, and the mysteries of time.
