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
Refrigerator
In summer’s swelter, consider the blessing of ice and the consequences of technology.
By Joyce Compton Brown /
Teacher, Mother, Poet, Star
Join Salvation South in an intimate conversation with the prize-winning Alabama poet Jacqueline Allen Trimble.
By Chuck Reece /
Where We Went Wrong
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.
By Chris Nesmith /
Southern Manhood
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.
By Chuck Reece /
To Hear What We’ve Come for This Long Time
One time and place nourishes the next, just like your broken eggshells feed your garden.
By Linda Parsons /
It’s Always Forward
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.
By Ray McManus /
The Survival of the Community, Not of the Fittest
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.
By Neema Avashia /
A Series on Neighborly Action: “Love Louder”
In this ongoing Salvation South series, we amplify the voices of Southerners who demonstrate radical love and acceptance, challenging negative regional narratives through their transformative community work.
By Neema Avashia /
The Way Love Finds You
Music, mystery, and magic are everywhere: just ask this mystic Southern poet.
By Paul Jones /
Let No One Turn You Around
The last thing her conservative Carolina parents wanted was to see their daughter fight for civil rights. The music made her do it anyway.
