Vinegar and Char: Verse from the Southern Foodways Alliance Matthew Leigh Embleton This is an incredible start

This is an incredible start to a new UF series and a breath of fresh air in a genre that seems saturated with the same recycled formulas

Stress Test is a hopeful story about public service

Challenging the fear-based ethic that often motivates Christian approaches

Draw near each day by daily inviting the Holy Spirit to open our hearts and minds

and how much we are willing to forgive in the struggle to remember our humanity

Vinegar and Char: Verse from the Southern Foodways Alliance Matthew Leigh Embleton This is an incredible startYes, there is barbecue, but that's just one course of the meal. With Vinegar and Char the Southern Foodways Alliance celebrates twenty years of symposia by offering a collection of poems that are by turns as sophisticated and complex, as vivid and funny, and as buoyant and poignant as any SFA gathering. The roster of contributors includes Natasha Trethewey, Robert Morgan, Atsuro Riley, Adrienne Su, Richard Blanco, Ed Madden, Nikky Finney, Frank X