The Raw Root of Dark Sounds
These three poems excerpted from “Scorched Earth” reckon with a mother’s face, the devil’s music, and what miracles can happen on a plain day.
Stories
A Monster Truck Passes the Poetry Reading
Let’s not get so cultured we’re blind, folks.
By John Davis Jr. /
The Space Dividing Us Must Be Destroyed
Four new poems by—and an in-depth conversation with—Kentucky’s Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.
By Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. /
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.