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Love is one form of salvation. Louisville’s unsung master of the short narrative poem guides us through a scene showing just that.

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The South lost one of its greatest artists this week, and Salvation South brings you two remembrances of the truth-telling singer from Butcher Holler, Kentucky.

You know her as My Brightest Diamond. She’s one of the most multitalented women in 21st century music. And now, she’s reckoning with her Southern roots and a music industry that wants to box her in.

The writer Ann Hite has been obsessed with the 1915 lynching of Leo Frank since she was a young girl. This poem is based on a statement about the lynching from Frank’s wife, Lucille Selig Frank.

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On the other side of the levee from the city, there is a small community called the batture that few people ever see. Macon Fry has lived there for 30 years.

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