Joni Tevis is the author of two books of essays, most recently The World Is On Fire: Scrap, Treasure, and Songs of Apocalypse. Her essays have appeared in Orion, The Southern Review, Poets & Writers, and elsewhere. The winner of a Pushcart Prize and a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, she serves as the Bennette E. Geer Professor of English at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. She is at work on a new book of nonfiction about music and destruction.
Joni Tevis
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The Broken Mirror
GONE WERE THE CAMPERS and the counselors. Gone were the Civilian Conservation Corps cabins. Gone were the horses and the corral, the mess hall and the bathhouse. Tall grass and brambles Continue reading
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Your Own Particular Soil: A Conversation with Janisse Ray About Wild Spectacle
ALOVER TAKES NOTHING FOR GRANTED. A lover explores, wanders, takes delight in nuance. Says, viva la difference. A lover listens, savors, is patient. Janisse Ray is a writer in love with Continue reading
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Acorn Bread
THAT FALL, my first October back in South Carolina, we had a bumper crop of acorns. Every day I heard the staccato rain of nuts hitting the roof, and when I Continue reading
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Fairy Tales of the Atomic Age
THIS WAY NEXT — trailside sign, Rock City FRIEDA CARTER was an entrepreneur’s wife and maybe all she wanted was a garden. It grew. In 1930, she walked through the woods Continue reading
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The Life of the Skies
YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN the one that got away. That’s a birding as well as a fishing refrain, a common hope among the binoculars-and-field-guide set, where to see is to capture. Continue reading