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Four Poems

By Nick Flynn

Roberta Flack is the Ballads Issue Cover Star

The Oxford American’s 25th-anniversary edition will include our always-anticipated CD sampler, a trademark of our music issues.

By Oxford American

Five Southern Film Programmers Answer Our Questions

Their answers highlight the indispensable role they play in bringing new stories to the South and sharing Southern stories with the world.

By Oxford American

Ballad Recs

Check in weekly for new Ballad recommendations from OA editors and staff!

By Oxford American

Jack and Me and Coochie Brake

Gold. Silver. Other treasures untold. These wanderers left it there... stashed in various hidey-holes scattered around Natchitoches.

By Keagan LeJeune

A Dream about a Ghost Is Not a Nightmare

Growing up in West Virginia, I knew that “King Coal” was real even though I had no familial connection to the state’s mining industry.

By Courtney Balestier

Oxford American Named Whiting Foundation Literary Magazine Prize Recipient

By Oxford American

BodyPoetry: A Short Film

Brown documents the work of paris cyan cian, a New Orleans–based practitioner of “ethereal and otherworldly” movement sessions.

By Zandashé Brown

Joy to the World

Even more than The Big Chill, Forrest Gump uses pop music as an all-purpose balm.

By Adam Nayman

Space, Race, and Country Music

The 2023 Windy City Smokeout was housed in the parking lot of the United Center, on Chicago’s Near West Side.

By Francesca T. Royster

Fall Film Issue Cover Reveal

The 122nd issue is a journey through the multifaceted relationships we share with cinema.

By Oxford American

Announcing the Ballads Issue

The 25th annual music issue will celebrate ballads as a vessel for Southern storytelling and sentimentality.

By Oxford American