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Jim Harrison Documentary

Good stuff, including the next three parts, also on YouTube.

Deana Nantz Reviews Harry Brown's "In Some Households the King is Soul"

Harry Brown's In Some Households the King is Soul is a collection of poetry celebrating the human spirit. Brown's eclectic variations of form invite you to travel along with the poet, musing in thought and recollections of God, nature, and family. Brown's poems, similar to his previous collection, Felt Along the Blood, unearth the poet's […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

The Revival, fiction by Rachel Cunningham

The usher man with his belly pooched out in a light-blue suit takes our tickets, spits off the side from his chewin tobaccer, and then continuin on, he brings us to seats that are bleachers offa softball field. Up front is a wooden platform stage with a canvas top on the dusty field. It don't […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

New Poem by Charles Dodd White

Old Bee Colony in a Broken Down Homeplace You and I, we have come to the relic Blighted with hobnails, slammed tight to plumb Where the secret city of insects once Thrived. The comb, brittle as gravely sunk bones Is a surprise, a tear in time to cheat The use of what we should carry […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Frackers Finding Some Opposition in PA

I said I wasn't going to post much about fracking in Pennsylvania, but this was too big to pass up: HARRISBURG, Pa. — Citing potentially unsafe drinking water, Pennsylvania called on companies drilling in the Marcellus Shale natural gas formation to stop taking wastewater to 15 treatment plants by May 19. Tuesday's announcement was a major […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Wounded Knee, fiction by Jason Stuart

"They picked me up in their spaceship about noon," Austin Grantham says to me while pulling up an apple crate to use as a stool. I'm sitting outside the Smith's Farm Supply and General Store shelling peas because my dad thinks it's good for me. My dad and I don't always agree on such points. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

FCAC now using Submishmash

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Southern Literature Stuck in the Past?

Chris Tusa thinks so, and makes his case in the Spring 2011 issue of Story South. Anyone who's spent any length of time living in the south knows that history is important to us. In the south, we cling to words like "tradition" and "heritage." If you search the term "Deep South" on Wikipedia, you'll […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Poems from Mather Schneider

I MISS THE WOODS It's easy to worship the world but hard to worship people. Life should be like fight to a dog. But all modern life consists of is society, learning how to negotiate society how to deal with the pressure of other people. The suffocation of too many rules, too much forced equality […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

System Failure

Yeah. It happened to me, on my oldest computer, which I trusted, and it let me down, as computers will. This again delays shipments of Ken Clark's wonderful chap, Eggs of American Songbirds., to some of you. I trust the issues will work themselves out this week, but I know, I'm really really late. Late […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...