Edison Jennings, Author at Salvation South

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Edison Jennings

Respite for the Poor, Ruin to the Unpunished

Edison Jennings finds decay, tragedy, and the haunting echoes of forgotten Appalachian lives in two vivid poems.

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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.

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From her upbringing near Churchill Downs to her role as a leading voice in contemporary Southern poetry, Joy Priest shares, in this conversation with Chuck Reece, how writing became both her salvation and her rebellion.

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Edison Jennings

Respite for the Poor, Ruin to the Unpunished

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