Gina Raye Felts is a fourth-generation native Nashvillian and a 2009 graduate of Nashville State Community College with an Associate of Arts in Art. She works in various media including textiles, watercolor and, most recently, verse. She is a great admirer of beautiful handmade quilts, embroideries and laces, since these private arts were often…
by Sebastian Jones
As I look outside my window
Towards the ceiling of the universe,
Away from Bones and Satchel
Who drag their oversized trash bags around town
like their past,
I stare southward at the Northern Star.
Big Carlos and Iron Mike post a frightened exoskeletal boy
Up on the side of the
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For Lydia Peelle, the South is a place where the past crowds the present. She is curious about the lives that came before. Who were the people that once lived in her house? What are the histories of people she passes on the street? What lives were lived in an old abandoned farmhouse?
Peelle’s…
I Had a Dream
By Nevin Compton Trammell
I had a dream
that some force picked me up
and
put me down
in some new
and different town
that I had never seen before
with small shops
and church towers with clocks
that told different times
and bells
that all chimed in rhymes
And
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“I think writers have to have a touchstone. The rural landscape is mine. Sometimes I write scenes just to get to write a summer storm.” –William Gay
When I took that first tentative step up into William Gay’s cabin in…
By Mary Elizabeth Holden, Survivor
Now…You…Lose!
I won’t be silenced by your thoughts.
Nor by the words you say.
I won’t be buried in my hole.
Today is a brand new day.
The wrong you did won’t be forgot.
And I won’t hide my tears.
The strength that grew – You cannot stop.
I…
Joy Ngoma is a student at TSU and majors in TV/Radio Broadcasting and Africana Studies. She has a great interest in documentary films and works with issues that address social injustice. She writes and produces for TV shows. The granddaughter of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, she lives with her mother, Naomi Tutu, and two siblings,
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A Garden’s Love
by Tracy
In my life I had a friend so dear
To me, she was the garden in my heart.
She would feed me things I’ve never
Seen. So actually she taught me taste.
There was such a love in her heart
She gave to me. My gratitude is real and
Deep,
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