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.

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.”

Inevitably, it comes time for the one who loves us best to leave. But maybe she’s always around, like that bird outside the window.

This week, join our Patti Meredith as she interviews George Singleton, a master of the short story—and of making us laugh at ourselves.

As spring arrives, one of the South’s most prolific poets takes us from the celestial to the earthly and back again.

Her father was a Pentecostal minister who never told a lie in his life. Until he did. And it was so big, it stayed with the family forever.

A Tennessee poet guides us into a spring ritual, an old house, dreams of where we’ve been, and dreams of where we’ll be.

“The coyote…has as much right to be here as we do,” environmental activist Edward Abbey once wrote. These days, he wouldn’t get much agreement.

The daughter of a legendary Arkansas pair of revivalists unravels a gripping story about an unspoken truth that haunted her family for decades.

A minister on why he takes his cues from the late Mississippi Rev. Will D. Campbell, who believed all of us were bastards, but that God loved us anyway.

After a lifetime of fishing in—and studying—the rivers of our Blue Ridge Mountains, an ecologist now understands, and grieves, how climate change has altered them forever.

A poem on faith and doubt along the Carolina shore