Michael J. Solender

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Blood Memory

The Ring Shout — an ecstatic and transcendent spiritual dance rooted in West Africa — rose historically through the South as a tool of Black resistance. Today, its cultural significance and power serve the purpose of collective healing and the expression of Black joy.

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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.

His dog’s name was Rusty. He was a German shorthaired pointer. Daddy said he was the best bird dog ever.

To honor our Italian ancestors and friends, let’s call it gamberetti con polenta.

If you want to get something done at city hall, a Florida city commissioner argues, fighting won’t help. Talking, on the other hand, builds your odds considerably.

Too many Southern children lose their homes because their parents can’t abide their sexual orientation or gender. This week, we get an inside look.

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Two lifelong friends—one a poet, one a painter–talk about it all: labor, joy, and love; the value of slowness; the subtleties of structure; and how to “make it soft, make it low.”

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