A Valdosta Pastoral
by Harold Whit Williams Colbert County, Alabama 1980 We stroll these tracks beside the Memphis road. We laugh and toss some clods against an oak That stood when Davis donned a dress and stowed
Wal-Mart Bags
by Deborah R. Majors I saw, pushed by a semi’s draft, Florida’s snow float from heaven to Pine to grass then tumbleweed
Literary Friday, Edition 51
More Gatsby eye candy. Pairing wine with books. The No. 1 book store in America. Tennessee Williams off Broadway. The Uncle Remus Museum returns to Turnwold. Edible Book Day, Bards & Brews, an intergalactic storytelling competition & the Southern Food Writing Conference in Literary Events. And a new poem in Southern Voice. Happy Literary Friday!
Shooting the Breeze in Beaufort
The South Carolina coast's second-annual Intergalactic Storytelling Festival and Liars Competition celebrates oral traditions next weekend.
Cross-Pollination
by Rachael Evans Friday. The sun beats down as I craft life sitting amid the soybeans
Called to the Kitchen
by Tracy Lynn Darling She visited once every two, three months no particular timing she’d stay all day and we found none of this peculiar in any way
The Lavish Sets of The Great Gatsby in Architectural Digest
Nothing like a bit of Gatsby eye candy to wrap up this day. Architectural Digest has the dish on how Director Baz Luhrmann and his designer wife Catherine Martin created the dazzling sets in the new movie version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel.
Tennessee Williams' Myrtle Descends on Columbus, Mississippi
"Kingdom of Earth" opened in Tennessee Williams' hometown April 1 and runs through the 13.
Poems About the Blues
From Memphis to Vicksburg, the blues percolate from sweat-soaked soil of the Mississippi Delta
A Home for Ashley Wilkes
Spend the night at Margaret Mitchell's Twelve Oaks, the inspiration for Ashley Wilkes' home in "Gone with the Wind," before hitting Georgia's trail of sites related to the movie.