By Jeremy Paden|2018-10-15T18:14:14-04:00October 15th, 2018|National Hispanic Heritage Month, Southern Voices|0 Comments
In recognition of 2018 National Hispanic Heritage Month we are pleased to share with our readers selected and diverse works by Jeremy Paden: a poem, an essay, and a book review. * Thank you, Jeremy for enlightening
By Virginia Underwood|2018-10-10T21:08:33-04:00October 10th, 2018|Domestic Violence Awareness Month, National Hispanic Heritage Month, News|0 Comments
Shadelandhouse Modern Press will recognize both National Domestic Awareness Month and National Hispanic Heritage Month on Saturday, October 13 from 2:00-3:00 p.m. at Brier Books, 319 S. Ashland Avenue, Lexington, Kentucky 40502, (859-523-6404) with readings by two Kentucky women writers:
By Tasha Cotter|2018-06-28T10:26:12-04:00June 28th, 2018|Southern Voices|0 Comments
Where I Come From by Tasha Cotter After George Ella Lyon I come from hunting seasons and hybrid bass. High school boys chewing tobacco in the halls. Kilts and silks and my mother’s wedding dress. A symphonic band and
By Amanda Jo Slone|2018-04-04T12:04:21-04:00April 4th, 2018|Publisher's Picks: Book Reviews, Southern Voices|0 Comments
by Amanda Jo Slone Students in my Composition class are writing literacy narratives. This is always my favorite assignment of the semester. I love to guide them through the mining of their memories and watch as their narratives take
By Tasha Cotter|2017-11-30T16:07:13-05:00December 7th, 2017|Southern Voices|0 Comments
How it Felt to be in the Fields by Tasha Cotter For a long time, the silence wasn’t mine. My thoughts hit against the curved horizon. The county line held me, as if in a sphere of green fields
By Tasha Cotter|2017-11-30T15:25:32-05:00November 30th, 2017|Southern Voices|1 Comment
Your Heart is a Map by Tasha Cotter Sometimes when I read what people write about the heart I feel I've traveled the same country, took notes from the same shores and church yards. I remember everything, too: The
By Sandi Keaton-Wilson|2017-10-30T10:27:53-04:00October 30th, 2017|Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Southern Voices|1 Comment
SURVIVOR by Sandi Keaton-Wilson There will be a time for singing! If your door is closed, barred shut, go now to open a window— and fly up and up and up! Look for gentle hands to reach out, soft
By Sandi Keaton-Wilson|2017-10-15T11:37:31-04:00October 15th, 2017|Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Southern Voices|1 Comment
STOLEN FLOWERS by Sandi Keaton-Wilson Bruises, shades of twilight sky, shine underneath her eyes, no lie or makeup can hide. Her screams, her dreams are a daily nightmare of pain; words make wounds that take even longer to
By Jeremy Paden|2017-10-15T11:29:53-04:00October 15th, 2017|National Hispanic Heritage Month, Southern Voices|0 Comments
How to Peel an Orange by Jeremy Paden My Puerto Rican grandmother had a contraption a peeler a clamp that held the orange in place with rods an axis on which the orb turned while a blade etched a
By Jeremy Paden|2017-10-06T14:07:13-04:00October 6th, 2017|National Hispanic Heritage Month, Southern Voices|0 Comments
In March of this year, once the sun began to shine again and warm the earth, a neighbor with whom I chat—in the way you chat with those with whom you share a fence—told me he’d been sleeping very
