Shucking Pin
by Chris Wood Take the corn by the ear the way Mommy does yours. Grasp its ripe green skin, wrap the tanned strap round your wrist
This April Day: Talking to Georgia's Poet Laureate
Poet Shanna Conway Dixon talks to Judson Mitcham about his role as poet laureate and notions of Southern harmony in his work (poem included).
Lagniappe
by Shanna Conway Dixon I collected spare change from jars and buckets in case I chose to rid myself of you. I was afraid that you’d fall from my secrets
A Pair of Poems by Harold Whit Williams
I barely know the song. My fingers feel Like fuzzy okra pods as Jon asserts His snare into the bridge. Then Flip reveals His family genes and belts aloud those notes
Get JJ Grey's New Album
"This River," the new album by Florida band JJ Grey & Mofro, hit stores last week and is streaming on Spotify now.
Apartment Living
by Janell Oliver The crazy lady in number Four climbed onto the roof today. Three stories up, she called the cops from her cell phone and told them
The Caloosahatchee – A River In Florida
by Patricia Lewis Speir Eerie shadows spread across the narrow, twisty river, reflections, perhaps, of a Calusa Indian's spirit lingering in the dense cypress and palmetto hammocks readying his canoe of yellow pine
1947-1969
by Dani Sandal The Boy and I picnicked on my father's grave one fall day. Father passed in a coal mine. When he was alive, I'd stomped atop his red-dirt grave and not even known it
Literary Friday, Edition 53
Literary Legends of Yazoo Giveaway. National Poetry Month news. Hemingway's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech. Martin Luther King in The New York Times, and reader Tamara Welch on meeting Jill McCorkle. A "Z" booksigning in Literary Events, plus book festivals this weekend and a pair of poems in Southern Voice. Happy Literary Friday!