Salvation South Readings

A feed of Salvation South contributors—poets, essayists, and others—reading their work. A service for our loyal readers whose reading time falls during their commutes.

Salvation South Readings is a society podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 17 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Salvation South Readings, a society show with 17 episodes published.

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  The Tender

  Aug 14, 20261 minS2026

  A poet uses a child’s paintbrush to coax a single, fist-sized lemon from an indoor tree. Hear Ilyse Simon read her poem “The Tender.” Ilyse Simon saw the total eclipse in 2024 and began to write on the back of a crumpled napkin while stuck in traffic. She lived in Virginia for over a decade, where she created the Happy Belly Deli and managed the Roanoke Natural Foods Co-Op. Now, she is a nutrition therapist by day, burgeoning writer by night, and a mom all the time. She writes because therapy is too expensive. Her poetry has been in Chronogram , Lightwood Journal, WildSound, Rabbitbrush Journal, Anti-Heroin Chic , and Critica .

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  A Farmer’s Funeral

  Aug 14, 20264 minS2026

  What a family says, and cannot say, when it lays down one of its own. Hear Samuel Collins Hicks read his poem “A Farmer’s Funeral.” Samuel Collins Hicks is a journalist, actor, and cat lover in Lexington, Kentucky. He is a mental-illness and alcohol-recovery advocate, who lives with Bipolar II disorder and is celebrating five years of sobriety.

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  Haibun for My Neighbors

  Aug 7, 20261 minS2026

  A neighbor called the city on their April-in-Mississippi yard. They suspected a vendetta, either political or apian. Kendall Dunkelberg directs the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing at Mississippi University for Women, where he also directs the Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium and edits Poetry South magazine. He has published four collections of poetry: Landscapes and Architectures , Time Capsules , Barrier Island Suite , and Tree Fall With Birdsong , as well as the creative writing textbook, A Writer’s Craft: Multi-Genre Creative Writing .

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  Bent Cedar Mountain: Three Poems From the Novel-in-Verse

  Aug 7, 20268 minS2026

  Three poems from Julie Hensley’s Bent Cedar Mountain , where coal country’s debts come due in parking lots and Easter kitchens. Julie Hensley is a core faculty member of the Bluegrass Writers Studio at Eastern Kentucky University, where she teaches both fiction and poetry. She is the author of several books, including Viable , Landfall: A Ring of Stories , Five Oaks , and Bent Cedar Mountain . South Arts selected her as its 2026 Literary Fellow for the state of Kentucky.

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  Between Sundays: What No One Tells You About Loving Grown Sons

  Aug 7, 20266 minS2026

  The love never shrinks. Only the need does — and learning to tell the two apart may be the last work of motherhood. Diana Keough is an award-winning journalist and professor of journalism at the University of Georgia. She is the creator of Not From a Nice Family , a memoir podcast that will be released by Audible on September 17, 2026.

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