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
Road Trip to Texas
Far away from home, or long ago in memory, the ones we love still carry us.
By Terri Kirby Erickson /
Hand in Hand With Humidity
Always immersed in the natural world, this Georgia poet shows us how to savor the ever-changing weather.
By Gary Grossman /
A New Way to Submit Your Work
Salvation South has just opened its new submissions system. Here are the details.
By Chuck Reece /
The Whole of the South
The multimedia visual art of Ted Whisenhunt mystically conjures the totality of the South—our flora and fauna, our food and music, our people and communities—in strikingly original ways.
By Shawn Pitts /
Blame It on the Yellow Jackets
And no, we don’t mean the Georgia Tech football team.
By Chuck Reece /
To Acknowledge What Someone Else Says
In the eyes of this North Carolina poet, everything—even that which is not “eco”—is part of an ecosystem.
By Catherine Carter /
Don’t Meet Your Heroes?
They’ll always disappoint you, the saying goes. This is a story about how the rule doesn’t apply…if you have the right kind of hero.
By John T. O'Neal /
The Faithful Servant
For fifty years, Linda Strom has ministered to women in prison, helping them reenter society and rebuild their lives. She gives the credit to God and Karla Faye Tucker, who was put to death in 1998 for killing two people with a pickaxe.
By Diana Keough /
At One Summer’s End (for Billy)
Sometimes, when we’re gutted by loss, we go ahead and sing about it. This Mississippi poet does just that.
By James Dickson /
Crow
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.
By Joyce Thornburg /
Sweet Woman of God
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.
By Mark Beaver /
Irish Exits
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.