Beyond Words…
by Marshall Chapman
A week ago (June 6), I happened to be sitting in the back seat of a Ford Expedition barreling down a cobblestone highway in north central Mexico at speeds hovering around a hundred miles per hour. This…
LITERATURE
Publisher’s Note
A year ago . . . We launched the new Nashville Arts Magazine. Like any start-up, we worried about our new endeavor, wondering if Nashville would embrace and support our effort. We had a million “What ifs” with which to…
So to Speak
by Debbie Mathis Watts
Throughout history, the beauty of words has been celebrated. From the writings of the Japanese haiku poets to the writings of Shakespeare to the popular lyrics of Lennon and McCartney, many who have expressed the beauty…
Poetry | “Summer Thirst”
by Gayle Hutchinson
Several times
I’ve gone to God
About our love
And what to make of it.
The response is always the same . . . let him love you!
Seems irreverently invalid,
Poetry by Rebecca Brown
Circling
We saw you circling,
we saw you soar and dive
We wished that we could be more like you,
more alive
We love you,
I hope you know we love you
We saw you circling -
Poetry | Spring Fever
by Rebecca Brown
I was writing verse by the time I could read and was singing it even before then—from TV jingles to Nat King Cole. A Texas girl, I left home at 18 and began performing my…
Jennie Fields | “The Age of Ecstasy”
Jennie Fields was in Paris walking in the historic Faubourg Saint-Germain on the street where her favorite writer, Edith Wharton, had once lived. During that walk she had no idea that the life of Wharton would consume her own for…
Spotlight | “Andrew Jackson and the Young in Heart”
When Andrew Jackson, newly elected as the seventh president of the United States, moved on horseback from his Nashville home, the Hermitage, to the White House in Washington, it was with an immense sense of loneliness, following the recent death of his…
Spotlight | “Painting Tennessee”
Painting Tennessee is a wonderful portrait of our state by three local artists, Tom Moore, Joel Knapp, and Jennifer Simpkins. These three oil painters traveled to and painted portraits of all ninety-five counties of Tennessee in the plein-air method—painting in the outdoors in the…
My Hummingbirds
by Kevin Chopson
I will write one thousand poems about hummingbirds.
I will take them to Japan and study origami.
Each poem will become a cut and folded replica
of a childhood memory.
