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Poetry

Posted inARTS & SOUL

Two poems: "The Ancestral Wombyn" and "Whispers From the Womb"

by Alexandra Butler September 6, 2017December 3, 2020
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Two poems: "Muse Redaction" and "Are There Parts of You People Wear Around?"

by M'Bilia Meekers August 30, 2017December 3, 2020
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Two poems: "music" and "clothes"

by Nicole Callihan August 9, 2017December 3, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Photo essay: There is love in Louisville

by David Flores and Ellen Hagan July 20, 2017December 3, 2020
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Two poems: "All the Punks Become Libertarians" and "Horse Poem"

by Justin Carter June 19, 2017December 3, 2020
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Two poems: "My God on the 9th street of Colored Town" and "Beneath a Child of Sun"

by Christell Roach June 6, 2017December 3, 2020
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Two poems: "Satan" and "Leaving & Cleaving"

by Brandon Jordan Brown May 31, 2017December 3, 2020
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Two poems: "The Going Away" and "The Herons & the Catfish…"

by J. Scott Brownlee May 26, 2017December 3, 2020
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Two poems: "Southern Accent" and "Emma Goldman does not confuse love and marriage"

by Zaina Alsous May 5, 2017December 3, 2020
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Two poems: "Playing Levee" and "Rutherford Selig Stops for Gossip in Green Country"

by Steven Leyva April 19, 2017December 3, 2020
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Two poems: "Miriam" and "Dear Favorite Granddaughter"

by Ellen Hagan March 31, 2017December 3, 2020
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Poem: At the Edge of Dusk from Hollywood Cemetery

by Matthew Wimberely March 22, 2017December 3, 2020
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Poem: A Meditation on Burnt Offerings

by Destiny Hemphill February 16, 2017December 3, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

In Lowndes County, getting free means getting infrastructure

by Danielle Purifoy February 13, 2017September 27, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Two poems: Ohio River & Border State of Denial

by Jeremy Michael Clark January 25, 2017December 3, 2020
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Poem: Three Southern Bops

by Alexis Pauline Gumbs December 30, 2016December 3, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

What would it really mean to have a woman as the U.S. President?

by Sarah Bufkin November 8, 2016December 3, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Who gets to be remembered in Chapel Hill?

by Jonathan Michels October 8, 2016December 3, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Looking for truth and family at a Southern university

by Edith Dunlap September 3, 2016November 13, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

The most influential college you've never heard of, why it folded, and why it matters

by Sammy Feldblum August 24, 2016November 13, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Chatting with Virginia's "dark, drastic" new novelist

by Eric J. Wallace June 22, 2016December 3, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Race and the great American adventure

by Amien Essif May 13, 2016September 27, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

It's time to reconsider Carolina barbecue

by Tom Wolf May 5, 2016September 27, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Freedom and Black womanhood in Beyoncé's Lemonade

by Stevona Rogers May 3, 2016December 3, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Before I let go: on Houston, mental illness, and family

by Brian Foster March 22, 2016November 13, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Poem: Fat Sherri

by Ashley Keyser January 14, 2016December 3, 2020
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Poem: Poor Liam

by Kristian Becker January 14, 2016December 3, 2020
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Poem: God of the Motorcade

by Joy Priest January 14, 2016December 3, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Marshland: Mythmaking in the Georgia Tidewater

by Sarah Bufkin September 16, 2015November 13, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Poem: The Mortals

by Allison Seay September 8, 2015December 3, 2020

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