This special issue of Southern Cultures, guest edited by Tom Rankin, features contributions by Natasha Trethewey, Tamika Galanis, Kate Medley, T. DeWayne Moore, Phyllis B. Dooney, Lynn Marshall Linnemeier, Pableaux Johnson, Joanna Welborn, Jeremy M. Lange, Rachel Jessen, Kimber Thomas, Eliot Dudik, and more.
Guest edited by Tom Rankin, the Documentary Moment Issue is a collection of snapshots from the region: gas station grub in the Mississippi Delta, creative resilience among Black women, Second Lines in New Orleans, RV landscapes in North Carolina, and a life in metaphor as told by Natasha Trethewey.