An Arkansas veteran and professor unearths the South’s ambiguous tracks.

A Tennessee musician wrestles with ghosts—the troubling, the beloved, and the holy.

Illumination can spring from anywhere: the beach, our vices, or the sacred tomato sandwich.

Two poems that take an unflinching look inside a struggling family in Southern Appalachia.

In summer’s dreadful heat, unfulfilled threats of rain and unfulfilled desires in our chests leave us wanting.

In 1785, on the land where Clemson University now stands, the United States government signed a treaty. It promised the Cherokee people, “The hatchet shall be forever buried.” But that didn’t save the Cherokee town of Esseneca.

A pair of poems from the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas

Thoughts on reverie, restlessness, and recklessness from the poet laureate of West Virginia.

When you’re putting up the bounty of the garden, it’s positively lyrical.

One about where to grow old together. Another about where to put the remains when we’re gone.

From North Georgia come two verses to honor a mountain matriarch, a woman of courage, who does what needs to be done.

Three poems from the Cajun country of western Louisiana.