The sun, a single red eye, burnt what was left of the earth, holding everything…
Randall IveyJuly 10, 2020
It was an indelible moment, one that has resonated with me up to the present…
Randall IveyFebruary 21, 2019
A review of I'll Take My Stand by Twelve Southerners (LSU, 2006). In this age…
Randall IveyApril 3, 2018
A review of A New England Romance: And Other Southern Stories by Randall Ivey (Shotwell…
Patricia WoodsNovember 7, 2017
A review of Fred Chappell, Familiars, LSU Press, 2014. The cat, the felis silverstrus catus,…
Randall IveySeptember 12, 2017
A Review of Catharine Savage Brosman, Southwestern Women Writers and the Vision of Goodness, McFarland…
Randall IveyJuly 18, 2017
“Family’s getting scarce,” Cousin Jeanette says As Uncle Wallace, her daddy, lies In hospital bed…
Randall IveyDecember 13, 2016
Every night he watched them, this strange trio, the two men and the woman (that…
Randall IveyOctober 31, 2016
Mr. Newhouse’s daughter in Atlanta no longer knew what to do about her younger son,…
Randall IveyMarch 1, 2016
Variation on a theme by Chekhov “Oh, Eldridge. Well. Ain’t seen you in a week.…
Randall IveySeptember 29, 2015
From personal experience I can draw any number of anecdotes that would vividly personify William…
Randall IveySeptember 21, 2015
This story is for Ben Greer, fellow upcountryman. The South Carolina Upcountry, 1955 He hears…
Randall IveyJuly 7, 2015
A Gentleman in Charleston and the Manner of His Death by William Baldwin. University of…
Randall IveyMay 1, 2015
For Julian Ivey In a time when the dead are forgotten As quickly as yesterday’s…
Randall IveySeptember 9, 2014
It has been much too long since so-called “serious” poetry has had a legitimate hold…
Randall IveyJuly 31, 2014
Revival week at Covenant Baptist Church in Compton, South Carolina, was a time of great…
Randall IveyJuly 10, 2014
Were it not such a looming and very possible prospect on our collective cultural horizon,…
Randall IveyJune 4, 2014
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