Two Poems

By Mikey Swanberg and Erika Meitner

How to Be an Outlaw: Beyoncé’s Daddy Lessons

I want to be an outlaw like Beyoncé. I want to show up where I’m not expected and rock the house, bring the people to their feet.

By Francesca T. Royster

Issue 99, Winter 2017

Hey, Loretta!

Whatever label was pinned on Loretta Lynn, most people had never heard anything like her before.

By Marianne Worthington

Points South

Points South Live: The Deer and Elizabeth McQueen

Transcendental indie folk band The Deer join KUTX host Elizabeth McQueen for an evening of live music and...

The Hitchhiker from “Emergency”

It all fits together that way, that years later the narrator would be a novelist, that the character he’d almost forgotten was real would walk up...

By Wyatt Williams

Oxford American Presents Shovels & Rope

The OA presents folk-Americana duo Shovels & Rope for a concert and fundraiser celebrating the OA's 30th...

“Reckoning comes before reconciliation and often begins at the table.”

—Alice Randall

Podcast

If You Would Know Us

KaToya Ellis Fleming investigates the backlash and legacy of violence caused by the 1898 Wilmington Massacre in North Carolina and a performance by the American folk duo Birds of Chicago.

Half My World

Tess Taylor explores Anne Spencer's poetry and a live performance by Lucy Dacus. This episode marks the first time Anne Spencer's voice will be broadcast outside of the Anne Spencer House and Garden Museum.

The Borderlands

A dispatch from the Rio Grande Valley and a performance by Adia Victoria

Eyes on the South

Atlanta Signage: Looking Up

By Emily Wang

You are Where you're Supposed to Be

By Billie Carter-Rankin

A Way Home

By Jay Simple

Canopy Loss

By Colleen Mullins

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“God bless America and God bless the Oxford American…”

—Dolly Parton

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Brittany Howard Screen Print

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"Since 1992" OA Coffee Mug

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Get the Sweet Carolinas Music Issue Bundle

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Announcing the Country Roots Music Issue