Salvation South

In this poem from Asheville, North Carolina, a chain of images reveals how our minds sometimes play tricks on us—and, at other times, show us exactly what we need to see.

In 1998, Atlanta author Mark Beaver’s father asked him to write to the governor of Texas and call on him to stay the execution Karla Faye Tucker—a question that left him to ponder the tug of war between mercy and justice.

A lost dog brings Janie Doyle face-to-face with her peculiar neighbors, who live only three blocks away—but in a world that’s entirely different from Janie’s.

In summer’s swelter, consider the blessing of ice and the consequences of technology.

Punishment and glory–it’s all manifested right out there in the yard.

Join Salvation South in an intimate conversation with the prize-winning Alabama poet Jacqueline Allen Trimble.

The poems of South Carolina’s Ray McManus explore how boys become men—in ways healthy and unhealthy—perhaps better than any poet in the South.

Your willingness to be a jackass will never make you a man. Writers like South Carolina’s Ray McManus are shredding the futile and stupid myths about what exactly makes a Southern man.

One time and place nourishes the next, just like your broken eggshells feed your garden.

Poets can see into and beyond the surfaces of things: a slumber party, the fraught present, a forest. South Carolina’s Ray McManus shows how it’s done.

The pandemic left communities in Eastern Kentucky fighting for survival and waiting on government responses that came too slowly, so Misty Skaggs turned to the ancient principle of mutual aid.

In the Editor’s Corner this week is Neema Avashia, writing about a new Salvation South series on Southerners who share their love for all God’s children in the loudest ways possible.