Salvation South

Allison Langer began teaching writing to inmates in a Florida prison several years ago. This week, we run three pieces by inmates, set up by an intro from Allison.

Eduardo Martinez with a poem of questions from inside the walls

Sybil Rosen was in love with the forest that surrounded her cabin. Then the power company came with the world’s largest dozers. They tortured the timber, and they stripped all the land.

A head injury put us in the hospital for a while. Next Friday, Salvation South will be back.

No matter how hard you dig across the internet, you can’t find out much about Mrs. Ruby Henley of Social Circle, Georgia, and her Russian Communist Tea Cakes.

Salvation South is taking the week off so we can travel to the Word of South festival in Tallahassee, Florida. We’ll be back with our regularly scheduled programming on Friday, April 15.

The guitar was pulled from a white cabinet that looked like all the other white cabinets we saw that morning.

Just like a mule to get stuck on a porch. And like a kid to put him there.

New Orleans’ long tradition of celebration as resistance is the driving force behind the musical outfit Sabertooth Swing.

Tennessee poet Denton Loving covers fishing, the moon, chimney birds and more.

After our editor’s mother passed, he relied on his Aunt Mary — the boss of the Reece family kitchen — to show him how to live.

Salvation South has a big day at headquarters.