Vol. 2, Issue 12

“A lot of everyday Southern history has been pushed into the background, forgotten, and gladly forgotten.”

— Kathryn Stripling Byer

Southern Lit Presents: Kathryn Stripling Byer

by TNSF | Apr 24, 2019 | Southern Lit Presents, Vol. 2, Issue 12

Leaving the Dark Wood Behind Southern poetry is canonically known for its fullness of landscape. It is the attachment to the land that makes Southerners Southern—the seeking out of solitude to read nature’s messages through creeks and decaying leaves where ferns will...

Etymology of Denial | Poetry

by TNSF | Apr 24, 2019 | Poems, Vol. 2, Issue 12

Not, in fact, a river wedgedthrough Africa, but instead a hamletin Northwest Ohio. The mayor speaksGerman, as does the teacher, and the priestand the children, and even the Moroccanwho moved in the previous year. Alleyways do not exist in Denial: you’re either a...

Entrapment | Photography

by TNSF | Apr 24, 2019 | Photography, Vol. 2, Issue 12

Entrapment Morgan Stephenson’s current body of work focuses on the relationship with her paternal grandmother and its continuance after her death. She reexamines memories and emotions through archival imagery, familial heirlooms and storytelling from a personal...