Readings From Salvation South

About Readings From Salvation South

Salvation South contributors—poets, essayists, and others—read their work. A service for blind people and readers who prefer to listen..

Publisher

The Writers & Poets of Salvation South

Category

arts · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

24 Jun 2026

Latest episode

22 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

35 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   22 Oct 2026

   You Were Alive, but It Did Not Seem So: two poems by Jo Angela Edwins

   Hear South Carolina's Pee Dee Region Poet Laureate read her compositions "The Ghost in My Bedroom" and "Dead Lover Dream." Jo Angela Edwins has published poems in over 100 journals and anthologies. She is author of the collection A Dangerous Heaven (https://bookshop.org/a/95780/9798985483390) (2023) and the chapbooks Play (2016) and Bitten (2025). She has received awards from Winning Writers, Poetry Super Highway, the Jasper Project, and the South Carolina Academy of Authors. She teaches at Francis Marion University in Florence, South Carolina, and is the poet laureate of the Pee Dee region of the state.

2. 

   9 Oct 2026

   Dorcas: a poem by Jane Dorn

   Born, raised and bent double as a hairpin in various versions of Small-Town Baptist USA, Jane Dorn is currently at work on her chapbook, South of Tarnation. She lives in South Carolina where, inspired by Woody Guthrie, she keeps her hoping machine running.

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   8 Oct 2026

   Cornbread and Beans: a poem by Lee Bains

   Excerpted from Bains's debut collection, Work Lunch. Lee Bains is a poet and songwriter from Birmingham, Alabama. A cult songwriter forged in independent scenes, his work has carried him all over the U.S. and Europe, has received acclaim from the likes of Rolling Stone, The New York Times, NPR, The New Yorker, and The Guardian, and has led him to be a supporting musician for other artists like Lonnie Holley, Moor Mother, and Algiers. Lee has lent his work to support striking coal miners, immigrants’ rights groups, abortion funds, and anti-racism organizations. He has performed and read at Emory University, the University of Mississippi, Tulane University, Auburn University, and The Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden). He lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works between tours as a handyman.

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