Salvation South

From North Alabama’s Rachel Nix come three poems about the names we carry, the waters we cross, and letting time do its thing.

Smiling Easter bunnies? Not hardly.

Three poems from—and a compelling interview with—Alabama’s inimitable Jacqueline Allen Trimble.

How a small crew in tiny Whitesburg, Georgia, turned the work of a 19th century New England poet into a touring fundraiser for small-town public libraries in the South.

The world opens up during a foggy morning run.

The writer who took us to “Paradise” two years ago returns to Salvation South.

On Cherokee land, the black bear is an eternal presence—from the lore of thousands of years ago to the way Native people see them today.

One of the South’s greatest living masters of the short story, the relentlessly funny George Singleton, talks to Salvation South about the craft of writing—and his utter disregard for “Gone with the Wind.”

Inevitably, it comes time for the one who loves us best to leave. But maybe she’s always around, like that bird outside the window.

This week, join our Patti Meredith as she interviews George Singleton, a master of the short story—and of making us laugh at ourselves.

As spring arrives, one of the South’s most prolific poets takes us from the celestial to the earthly and back again.

Her father was a Pentecostal minister who never told a lie in his life. Until he did. And it was so big, it stayed with the family forever.