Testifying and Telling: Frank X Walker’s Poetic Civil War History
In his new collection, the Affrilachian Poets founder gives voice to Black Civil War soldiers and their families, aiming to uncover hidden truths inside Southern history.
In his new collection, the Affrilachian Poets founder gives voice to Black Civil War soldiers and their families, aiming to uncover hidden truths inside Southern history.
Robert Fell reflects on 42 years behind bars for the murder of his wife
Allison Langer began teaching writing to inmates in a Florida prison several years ago. This week, we run three pieces by inmates, set up by an intro from Allison.
Eduardo Martinez with a poem of questions from inside the walls
Sybil Rosen was in love with the forest that surrounded her cabin. Then the power company came with the world’s largest dozers. They tortured the timber, and they stripped all the land.
A head injury put us in the hospital for a while. Next Friday, Salvation South will be back.
No matter how hard you dig across the internet, you can’t find out much about Mrs. Ruby Henley of Social Circle, Georgia, and her Russian Communist Tea Cakes.
Salvation South is taking the week off so we can travel to the Word of South festival in Tallahassee, Florida. We’ll be back with our regularly scheduled programming on Friday, April 15.
The guitar was pulled from a white cabinet that looked like all the other white cabinets we saw that morning.
Just like a mule to get stuck on a porch. And like a kid to put him there.
New Orleans’ long tradition of celebration as resistance is the driving force behind the musical outfit Sabertooth Swing.
Tennessee poet Denton Loving covers fishing, the moon, chimney birds and more.