Ray McManus, a South Carolina-based writer of poetry and prose, today graces Salvation South with seven — count ’em, seven! — new poems.

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.

A poem about the springtime rituals of a Southern home.

Tennessee poet Denton Loving covers fishing, the moon, chimney birds and more.

Louisiana poet Neema Murimi shares a poem based on her years in New Orleans.

Neema Murimi ponders a 20-hour drive back home to a sodden, dirty South.

Florida poet John Davis Jr. contributes “Crossing Middle Age” and two more powerful poems.

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

The Appalachian mountains are full of women who “become everybody’s mother.” This poem from Marianne Leek pays Christmas homage to one of them.

Will Wellman brings us four poems from his heart — and from his native home of Florida.