Salvation South

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.

James Seawel shares a memory that is truly and deeply good, a memory that sustained him through a lifetime of changes.

In this poem written in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, Kaylee Eisman wrestles with how to find union with her neighbors.

Chuck Reece remembers traveling with his Uncle Bob to country stores in the North Georgia mountains.

This award-winning Tennessee-based photographer captures the real and imagined places from the greatest Southern fiction.

A broad slate of community collaborations set in motion by Knoxville’s Big Ears Festival offered real sources of hope, not only for the city and its community, but also for people from other cities who came to be part of the experiment. This is the last in a three-part series examining the community engagement initiatives at Big Ears 2022.

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.

George Lancaster believes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is setting some examples of a different — and better — form of patriotism.

How can a music festival transform a city? The Big Ears Festival in Knoxville is bringing the community together in ways folks never dreamed of only a few years ago. This is the second in a three-part series exploring how Big Ears is creating little miracles in Tennessee.

The Preservation Hall Brass Band and the East Tennessee Bluegrass Association find common ground in Dolly Parton.

Jodi Cash’s father passed away at the end of 2020. Ever since, the scenes of their relationship in her memory have been a movie she can’t stop watching.