Poems About Misbehavin'
'Misbehavin' by Tracy Lynn Darling and 'The wild ones' by Michael Gebelein.
Rust Never Sleeps
by Annie Neugebauer The tractor sleeps in yellowed fields of hay, deprived of rightful color, tires flat, and isolated there is where he’ll stay, for oxidizing orange has wrapped his back
Pennies From Heaven
by Shelby Stephenson Louis Prima: Keely Smith: Call of the Wildest − & − Jump, Jive & Wail: Scat, soul, humor: real, like The Witnesses Riffing at the butcher shop of Louis’s pop
50 Years of Civil Rights
Six Southern cities mark the anniversary of one of the most important movements in our nation's history this year.
Front Porch
by Patricia Neely-Dorsey (Hospitality Headquarters) Just the spot For taking in a cool breeze And watching the world go by
Last Impression
by Madison Adams The doctor asked me and the small cluster of others who'd been notified of her situation there, if we would, to please stand outside in the hospital hallway to detour the clicking of so many heels passing by her room for the
The House on St. Ann Street
by William Miller Marie Laveau lived in this shotgun house until she died of old age, the last
My Uncle's Garden
by John Valentine Crippled, young, by polio he dragged himself like an anvil through early snap beans, peas,
Literary Friday, Edition 52
A poetry chapbook and Eudora Welty birthday giveaway. Jill McCorkle in The New York Times. New Orleans poet Kelly Harris on what keeps her grounded, Faulkner's Nobel Prize medal up for auction and the 2014 Great American Fiction Contest. Plus, lots of book festivals in Literary Events and today's poem of the day in Southern Voice.