Mel Buckingham

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Poet Mel Buckingham from Nashville sets her memories of the 2010 Cumberland River floods to the strict rhyme scheme of the villanelle.

Some of us mourn quietly. Some of us howl like wounded animals.

How to fix yourself if you hold on too tightly to what used to be.

We welcome the renowned music writer Don McLeese to Salvation South with a story about the biggest legend in the history of Southern music.

A Tennessee poet guides us into a spring ritual, an old house, dreams of where we’ve been, and dreams of where we’ll be.

New Orleans’ long tradition of celebration as resistance is the driving force behind the musical outfit Sabertooth Swing.

A North Florida cattleman looks back and wonders, what happens when you can no longer afford to love the thing you love the most?

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