Not Built on Nothing
It’s odd—maybe even a little upside-down—how what you find in the attic can prove to be the foundation of your life.
Stories
Like a Poke in the Eye
How well chosen words can fight for folks who need defending.
By Chuck Reece /
Open at Last
Visionary in all weathers, Louisville’s Emma Aprile finds a way to carry hope through life’s balancing act.
By Emma Aprile /
A Bouffant Stacked Toward Heaven
Four new poems by—and an interview with— Marianne Worthington, author of “The Girl Singer”
By Marianne Worthington /
We Are a Choir
The South’s greatest poets assemble to sing the truths of our region for National Poetry Month.
By Andy Fogle /
Whatever We Never Planned
From North Alabama’s Rachel Nix come three poems about the names we carry, the waters we cross, and letting time do its thing.
By Rachel Nix /
At the Corner of Rosa Parks and Jefferson Davis
Three poems from—and a compelling interview with—Alabama’s inimitable Jacqueline Allen Trimble.
By Jacqueline Allen Trimble /
Sweet Tea With Emily Dickinson
How a small crew in tiny Whitesburg, Georgia, turned the work of a 19th century New England poet into a touring fundraiser for small-town public libraries in the South.
By Sybil Rosen /
Words, Gorgeous Words
The writer who took us to “Paradise” two years ago returns to Salvation South.
By Chuck Reece /
The Bear Essentials
On Cherokee land, the black bear is an eternal presence—from the lore of thousands of years ago to the way Native people see them today.
By Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle /
The End Kisses the Beginning
One of the South’s greatest living masters of the short story, the relentlessly funny George Singleton, talks to Salvation South about the craft of writing—and his utter disregard for “Gone with the Wind.”