Spoon Theory
Morgan DePue on how good memories, childhood trauma, and chronic pain can all rest in the hollow of that wooden spoon you hold in your hand.
Stories
Skin in the Game
When a Georgia minister and her husband adopted African American twins, they embarked on a challenging journey of love, learning, and confronting uncomfortable truths about race in the South.
By The Rev. Anna McArthur /
Every Hand a Rainbow
This time is tied to that time, and this creature to another—that’s what this Appalachian laureate shows us in two poems about children, grandchildren, a dog, and our own bodies.
By Kari Gunter-Seymour /
The Long Road to the Opry Stage
From punk rock roots to Americana success, Caleb Caudle discusses his evolution as a songwriter and the path that led to his upcoming Grand Ole Opry debut.
By Chuck Reece /
Shortchanged
Tammy’s about to get her associate’s degree and she’s got a chance to get a real job, with a desk and a chair and vacation days. There’s just this one thing…
By Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. /
Chicken. Dumplings. Legacy.
In southeastern Georgia, a mother stews up some chicken and considers what her family farm requires of her—not what she requires of it.
By Becki Clifton /
I Do Believe in Miracles
Harriet Tubman first escaped enslavement in Dorchester County, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, on September 17, 1849. She returned at least 13 times to lead at least 70 to freedom. One-hundred-and-seventy-five years after that first escape, these four poems from southeast Virginia honor her spirit of resistance and solidarity.
By Carol Parris Krauss /
The Double Threats of Southern Storytelling
A select few Southern writers create fiction and poetry with equally exquisite skill. This week, the award-winning Kentucky poet Willie Carver publishes his first fiction with us, giving us our first peek at a forthcoming “novel in stories and poems.”
By Chuck Reece /
Transubstantiation Gone Wrong
In which an impish, six-year-old girl finds solace in the arms of a laughing son of God.
By Jean K. Dowdy /
This Is the Truth, Sugar
Odes to music, experience, and making the best gravy.
By Elaine Fowler Palencia /
The Ones Who Were Here Before Us
In the latest Salvation South Deluxe podcast, we dive into the history of the U.S. government’s four-headed assault on Native Americans—and how it changed the South.
By Chuck Reece /
Confessions of a Jewish-American Belle
An author and playwright navigates her Southern roots and Jewish identity in a world that often saw them as contradictions.
By Sybil Rosen /
Meet Me There
Three Louisiana men, all fathers of little girls, confront a dark secret that tests their morals and bonds them in unexpected ways. Will they serve justice or be consumed by their own hatred?