Dirty Little Story
...She now lives near Iuka, Mississippi. This essay is courtesy of Kings Features Syndicate. Johnson is the author of several books, including Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming (2010)....
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...long, somewhat controversial tradition in southern literature, one that Richard Gray describes as "a familiar path in Southern writing, in search of the raw and marginal, disrupted lives presented in...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...creators of any orientation whose work addresses the lives of LGBTQ+ persons and/or applies queer and feminist theory to various topics. We encourage a diversity of methods and theoretical approaches....
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...the courts and jails, some for long periods of their lives. In the 1930s, as mass pressure was forcing an end to public lynching, the treatment of the nine defendants...
Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19
...urban landscape, e.g. occupancy of office buildings; closure of retail stores; restructuring of restaurants and pedestrian spaces? How are the over one million lives lost to Covid in the United...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...key natural resources. These measures should bring about a radical decentralization of power in order to give local people and communities greater control over their lives and prospects. All these...
The Morning with Many Tongues
...the University of Georgia Press in 2008. Hill is an editor at Broadsided Press. He lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. More information, as well as poems, can be found at his...
Place, Time, and Memory
...rural landscape, the effects of time's passage upon the material world, the hubris of monumentality, and the fatal attractions of evil. A graduate of the University of Alabama, Christenberry lived...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...with Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and many others. "Tear Gas and the Scripture (6-1-2020)," June 22, 2020. Collage by Eric Solomon....
Sowing The Seed Underground
...low-residency creative writing program at Chatham University. She has published poetry and non-fiction books, including Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (1999). Ray lives and works on a family farm in...