by TNSF | Feb 27, 2019 | Southern Lit Presents, Vol. 2, Issue 8
Breaking Out of Dark Glittering Corners Juliana Huxtable’s poetic style is bold, unapologetic, and very in your face. She proclaims her words with all capital lettering that refuses to ease up for the reader. She writes proclamations from her soul and throws them like...
by TNSF | Jan 16, 2019 | Nonfiction, Southern Lit Presents, Vol. 2, Issue 5
Finding a Home in Language Naomi Shihab Nye is no stranger to the dichotomy of oscillating from one place to another while still creating a space for herself wherever she lands. Born to a Palestinian refugee father and American mother, she spent much of her life in...
by TNSF | Aug 22, 2018 | Nonfiction, Southern Lit Presents, Vol. 1, Issue 41
“Poetry Is An Indian”—An Outlaw Ghost Still Speaks Many Southerners are quick to take great pride in their potential ancestry of Native American tribes. Insert Sioux, Cherokee, or Apache here. If we try, we can visualize the images hung on the walls of some...
by TNSF | Aug 1, 2018 | Photography, Vol. 1, Issue 38
I found these two buzzards sitting on fence posts beside a rural Texas road. They were, without a doubt, waiting for breakfast, whatever overnight roadkill might provide. I thought of the characters from Waiting for Godot, the Samuel Beckett play. His characters,...
by TNSF | Jul 4, 2018 | Visual Art, Vol. 1, Issue 34
“Club Southern” (Brenham, Texas) is a still-standing relic of earlier times. The building is abandoned now, but it was no doubt one of those places that sported the frosty decal in the window tempting people with the promise of air-conditioning inside. In the South...
