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|0 Comments
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
By Marta Miranda-Straub|2017-10-06T13:26:02-04:00October 6th, 2017|Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Southern Voices|0 Comments
The Journey By : Marta M. Miranda-Straub Dedication to the Courage and Resilience of DV Survivors Welcome, Your courage has walked you here Your desperation has fueled your pace Your suffering paved the way Your wisdom will guide your
By Marta Miranda-Straub|2017-10-04T10:21:28-04:00October 4th, 2017|National Hispanic Heritage Month, Southern Voices|0 Comments
Dawn By Marta Miranda-Straub There is nothing like the familiarity of a sleeping body Bundles of bones, flesh and blankets canvassing the dawn I sit and stare yawning at the sun This is my holy time and I invite
By Marta Miranda-Straub|2017-09-26T16:56:23-04:00September 26th, 2017|National Hispanic Heritage Month, Southern Voices|0 Comments
SOCIAL JUSTICE PRAYER by Marta Maria Miranda-Straub On this day, at this moment with this breath. En este dia, en este momento, con este respiro. We evoke the communal spirit of justice. Nosotros evocamos el spirito de comunidad y
By Marta Miranda-Straub|2017-09-26T16:46:27-04:00September 20th, 2017|National Hispanic Heritage Month, Southern Voices|1 Comment
Cubalachain By Marta Maria Miranda-Straub I am from a place where roosters wake you up and chickens feed you breakfast, where pigs are slaughtered with grit and grace and every single part is used for something I
