Shannon Yarbrough

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A queer Southern mother’s complicated relationship with Chick-fil-A.

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As cooked in the Plains, Georgia, kitchen of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter in 2006.

This week, you can meet the Alabaman who, although his name is largely forgotten, changed American music forever.

North Carolina writer Kathleen Purvis remembers the time another girl in her class stole her writing and passed it off as her own. The incident hurt her — but it also taught her lessons that shaped the rest of her life.

The ethos of central Mississippi’s Strong River Camp & Farm left Jennifer Kornegay with a deep appreciation of sheer childhood joy, and it remains with her to this very day.

A short story about an old man, a young man, the checkout line, and small things that feel like justice.

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Alabama Poet Laureate Ashley M. Jones creates entire worlds in three new poems and affirms the power of poetry to help us see others and ourselves.

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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