Savannah The Great by InnaRae in quiet storms stretched throughout the third quarter each day streaks of lightning birth themselves into dusk almost sundown around town eventide skies gone after an 8th of a second we see you perfectly zigzagged lines shooting up from the earth curving right for miles – then off to the left toward infinity And it tells me everything about how you landed, lived, loved, and left Great Mother Savannah seems your timing is always just before liqui

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Lilli Lewis BIO As the story goes, Lilli Lewis should never have been. Before she was born, Lewis’ mother was told her baby probably...

Creation: An Invocation by YaNi Davis Inhale by exhale Recognize that all creation is moving through you and Around you The hovering of...

Jamaican-born and Atlanta-raised Fiona Zedde is the author of over thirty sapphic novels, novellas, and short stories including the...

Light the Mic by Lori F Thomasson Broken glass dreams and crumbled visions Memoirs from men whose decision is to love darkness Love night...

Three Stops Along River Road in Columbus, Georgia By: Christy Petterson ONE: Picking Up Lunch at Clearview BBQ “Oh we’re cash only, hon,”...

We Need Water by Raquel Battaglia I stopped sweeping the kitchen when I heard the cows moo. The moaning, thirsty sound rolled through the...

Anjali Enjeti is a former attorney, organizer, journalist, and MFA instructor based near Atlanta. She is the author of Southbound: Essays...

Privilege Vs.Community by Karin Pendley Koser The culture I live in, my community for 26 years now, is quite generous toward the plights...

Sonia Leigh’s musical style cannot be put in a box. From Hip-Hop to Country to Pop and Rock and Roll. Her Southern Ground debut album,...

Artwork by Verlena L. Johnson A Poem to My Black Teenage Son By Verlena L. Johnson Your voice is just beginning to deepen and your body...

Metamorphosis by Emily Bilman Like the poet seeking immortality through an unfinished manuscript, Orpheus would not abandon Eurydice to...

Sharon Daugherty is a Philadelphia born, Atlanta based painter and sketch artist. The self-taught artist uses abstract expressionism to...

Ilina Singh (Mother) and Asha Leong (Daughter) Ilina Singh has already lived several lifetimes. Ilina was born in Mathrua, India lived...

Glenis Redmond is a performance poet, a Kennedy Center Teaching Artist, and a Cave Canem alumni. In October of this year, Glenis was...

Who Am I ? By: Dr. Dionne Bates Who am I? I am: I who at inception was so intricately intrepid, that I married me to conceive myself. I...

L. Marie Wood is an award-winning dark fiction author, screenwriter, and poet with novels in the psychological horror, mystery, and dark...

For Beauty by Pauletta Hansel I’ve seen beauty in Harlan / in the trailing arbutus… [but] beauty / is a stranger / to the coal camps …...

Patience for Intervention (Knoxville, Tennessee) by Mary O’Brien I see the earthen mounds, you see the river parapets, impressions in the...