The Alabama Writers’ Forum
The Alabama Writers’ Forum, a partnership program of the Alabama State Council on the Arts, works to cultivate our state’s literary culture. We do that through supporting writers at all stages. We encourage our young writers to find their creative voice through the Father Goose Poetry Festival for Kids!–and through our Alabama High School Literary Arts Awards. We support the work of our state’s literary community through our Alabama Authors Directory, First Draft magazine, and other programming and opportunities for writers across the state. And we celebrate our state’s rich literary legacy through the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame. We are, above all, a community of writers united by our desire to advance the literary arts in Alabama. If that describes you — join us! There are many ways to get involved.
The Other Revival
The Other Revival: Poems and Reckonings By Salaam Green Pulley Press, 2025 Paper: $18.00 Genre: Poetry Reviewed by Eliza Jane Franklin Salaam Green’s The Other Revival: Poems and Reckonings is a literary Ouija board conjuring the past into the present. In this anthology of Southern cultural poems, she shares a thoughtfully composed array of works that speak to both tragedy and triumph. Through the five thematic sections, “Back to the Plantation”, “At the Wallace House Plantation”, “The Woman in the Yellow Apron”, “The Woman in the Yellow Apron Departs for the Tent Revival”, and “Road to the History House”, she provides insight on the plantation, and moreover, the people who inhabited the space. Each page displays her masterful skill as a griot, reconciling histories across generations and racial lines, including spatial and geographical boundaries, to capture the reader’s mind and spirit. For all those who are heavy laden, this book provides a rest stop for the soul—a revival. Green manifests a gathering under the umbrella of the front and back covers of this book, likened to a traditional Southern Baptist church's doors swinging open for an [...]
