We Are All From Where We Are
Louisville poet Emma Aprile, winner of our inaugural Salvation South New Poets Prize, discusses her creative process, the landscapes that shape her work, and what it means to write from and for the South.
Stories
Can a Cookie Be Communist?
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.
By Chuck Reece /
Salvation South Heads to Florida
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.
By Chuck Reece /
Finding Mississippi John Hurt
The guitar was pulled from a white cabinet that looked like all the other white cabinets we saw that morning.
By Michael Venutolo-Mantovani /
A Recalcitrant Mule
Just like a mule to get stuck on a porch. And like a kid to put him there.
By Janisse Ray /
On the Wonder
New Orleans’ long tradition of celebration as resistance is the driving force behind the musical outfit Sabertooth Swing.
By Rob Rushin-Knopf /
Five Poems by Denton Loving
Tennessee poet Denton Loving covers fishing, the moon, chimney birds and more.
By Denton Loving /
Grace in a Tin Can
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.
By Chuck Reece /
Macaroni and Cheese for Easter
Dee Thompson with a story on her mother’s Easter macaroni and cheese, which goes way beyond al dente.
By Dee Thompson /
The Big Red F.U.
Old Crow Medicine Show leader Ketch Secor shares his hopes about what the removal of the battle flag will mean for his children.
By Ketch Secor /
The Bell Tower
Fiction writer DC Diamondopolous with a short story about a Montgomery pastor who helps one his of flock back away from the edge of suicide.
By DC Diamondopolous with illustration by Stacy Reece /
Above Ground Drowning
Louisiana poet Neema Murimi shares a poem based on her years in New Orleans.