Melanie Henderson

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Guiding Us Home

From Washington, D.C., three poems honoring ancestry and excavating history.

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Nat Myers’s sound is reminiscent of Charley Patton and Memphis Minnie, but his perspective as a first-generation Korean-American raised in Kentucky brings a fresh twist to the fingerstyle blues tradition.

We discover our family is connected to this other one, and that friend to another one, until we all learn how we are woven into the great sweep of Southern history.

On the other side of the world, James Seawel met a fellow American, Benjamin Adams, who told him stories of the Civil Rights Movement. Adams would never call himself a hero, but Seawel knows he was one.

Amidst increasing frailty, tough terrain, and inevitable loss, a lone singer can steady the spirit.

A poem from Karen Luke Jackson about a Sunday respite from the world in the quiet atop a North Carolina mountain.

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