Hilda Downer, Author at Salvation South

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Hilda Downer

Aunt Honeybee’s Bread Board

Making biscuits turns everything into a song of praise, lament, and uncertainty.

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Our poetry editor picks his favorite poems from Salvation South in 2024.

Harriet Tubman first escaped enslavement in Dorchester County, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, on September 17, 1849. She returned at least 13 times to lead at least 70 to freedom. One-hundred-and-seventy-five years after that first escape, these four poems from southeast Virginia honor her spirit of resistance and solidarity.

A farm and a family are one and the same, each one enduring a burden.

Jordan Blumetti reflects on “Indigo,” the latest book from one of the South’s greatest living writers, Padgett Powell.

Sometimes, you think you’ve gotten above your raising, and then you discover you started out much higher than you thought.

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Aunt Honeybee’s Bread Board

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