Salvation South

07/25/2025

Some losses call for devastating grief. Others call for dancing shoes. Colleen S. Harris’s new poems cut to the core. Harris, a celebrated Texas poet, offers two new verses alive with longing and renewal. Get ready to be moved, undone, and revived.

https://www.salvationsouth.com/colleen-s-harris-new-poems-texas/

07/20/2025

Our latest Salvation South Deluxe podcast takes listeners to Clarkston, Georgia—the most diverse square mile in America—to hear how refugees and locals knit together the future, one coffee and one story at a time. Tune in for warmth, grit, and an undaunted vision of welcome the world needs now.

https://www.salvationsouth.com/clarkston-georgia-refugees-podcast/

07/20/2025

How do you build a home—by hand and by heart? Poet Jacqueline Allen Trimble sits down with Alabama’s James and Tina Mozelle Braziel. Their love, labor, and poetry shaped their life in a glass cabin on Hydrangea Ridge, and a luminous new collection you’ll want to discover. Peek inside their creative partnership and the wild, joyful struggle of making something that lasts.

https://www.salvationsouth.com/glass-cabin-poetry-james-tina-braziel-interview/

07/19/2025

What do we owe to the generations who returned home changed, determined to teach empathy over hate? In this filmed conversation and (and unedited transcript) , Partridge and Reece dig deep into history, confronting the complicated legacy WWII left in Southern families and why remembering it matters now more than ever.

https://www.salvationsouth.com/southern-world-war-ii-ancestry-stories/

07/19/2025

Award-winning journalist Diana Keough explores the delicate dance of being a mother-in-law: humility, forgiveness, and the lifelong struggle to love generously while holding your tongue. Honest, funny, and hopeful, this latest “Between Sundays” column’s hard-won wisdom will ring true for every family—no matter which side of the wedding aisle you sit on.

https://www.salvationsouth.com/mother-in-law-humility-diana-keough-on-family-faith-forgiveness/

07/18/2025

Come listen to Chuck and talk about their Nazi-fighting ancestors. It will do your heart good.

https://www.salvationsouth.com/southern-world-war-ii-ancestry-stories/

07/18/2025

You asked, we delivered! Our sticker with the same design has captured the imagination of bookworms across the land. So now you have something comfy to waller in while reading your latest literary acquisition.

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07/17/2025

Do not read this story hungry. Anna Rollins—a writer who knows her way around Appalachian joy—takes you through the messy, communal, and occasionally sacred hot dog stands of West Virginia. Come for the chili sauce, stay for the characters, and find out what happens when an avowed skeptic bites in.

https://www.salvationsouth.com/hot-dog-hallelujah-west-virginia-hillbilly-hotdogs/

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07/13/2025

A battered WWII canteen, a folk song, and a pilgrimage across Europe—Abe Partridge and Chuck Reece connect personal family legacies to the broader truth about who our Southern heroes truly are. Abe debuts his new single and documentary film, JJP From Elba ALA, and Chuck’s essay inpired by both invite you to reconsider what Southerners should—and shouldn’t—forget about our past.

https://www.salvationsouth.com/southern-world-war-ii-ancestry-stories/

07/05/2025

After a dire diagnosis, novelist Lis Anna-Langston began walking to Thomas Wolfe’s grave, leaving pencils and prayers among the moss-covered stones. Her narrated, visual essay—a first for Salvation South—captures how a dead writer’s restless spirit steadied her own fight to live.

https://www.salvationsouth.com/afternoons-with-tom-lis-anna-langston/

07/04/2025

Kentucky poet Lucie Brooks, winner of the Chaffin/Kash Prize, weighs fireworks against fear in a searing new poem about raising Black sons below the Mason-Dixon. Each line snaps like a match struck in the dark, demanding we witness the country’s unfinished work.

https://www.salvationsouth.com/lucie-brooks-on-the-fourth-of-july-poem/