Local Spotlight: Emma Bolden reads Finishing School
Finishing School Emma Bolden from Havens Couldn’t sugar. Couldn’t sweet right. Couldn’t rat- comb, couldn’t tease the boys with a belt and a bra, Madonna coned. Couldn’t talk lady. Couldn’t coo. Couldn’t bless the heart of Jesus till...Dr. South Love or: How I Learned to Stop Listening and Love the Lady I Was
Dr. South Love or: How I Learned to Stop Listening and Love the Lady I Was Emma Bolden In the first frenzied firestorm of pro-Trump extremism, my liberal views made me a lightning rod in my workplace, and I got hit. I lost everything: the life and career I’d built so...
Local Spotlight: Poems from MEND by Kwoya Fagin Maples
poems from MEND Kwoya Fagin Maples OAK, PINE, BASSWOOD Mt. Meigs, AL, Present Day in mt. meigs, fields of ugly cotton plants persist, their bolls colded over and forever done, afflicting the stalks like boils, a mutated offspring of their ancestors— which were so...
Local Spotlight: An Interview with Kwoya Fagin Maples
KWOYA FAGIN MAPLES is a writer from Charleston, S.C. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama and is a graduate Cave Canem Fellow. In addition to a chapbook publication by Finishing Line Press entitled Something of Yours (2010) her work is...