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…
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…
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.
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…
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
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…
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
“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
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.
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
