Yellowhammer Press

Brushfire

He stepped off the porch and with a lazy spit in the clematis headed off towards the car.  On arriving, he had been half-tempted to leave it idling in the drive so she would understand just how brief he intended this visit to be.  The cylinders on that thing knocked something awful and he’d [...]

The black eyed peas and turnip greens have settled and the new year is upon us.  YHP is growing and we’re looking for contributors.  Brannon and I were exceptionally busy at the end of last year, and as a result we didn’t have enough time to devote to this site.  What we hear from our [...]

At the moment, I’m somewhere over what I believe is Pennsylvania, happily on my way out of New York and into Atlanta, and from there on my way home to north Alabama.  The view is wonderful — the snowbound landscape mimics Andrew Wyeth’s subtle pallet of gentle browns, greys, blues, and broad swathes of unspoiled [...]

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Hello loyal readers,
Yellowhammer Press is in the middle of moving (our house, not our website) and will return on Monday.  Dock Boggs will keep you company until we return.   Thanks for your patience!
-YHP

Gregory Donovan’s “Is There a Dead Mule in It,” is a wonderful piece of poetry and an homage to Jerry Leath Mills’ now-famous essay Equine Gothic: The Dead Mule as Generic Signifier in Southern Literature of the Twentieth Century.Don’t let the academic title fool you — it’s a delightful analysis of Southern Lit and the [...]

The Yellowhammer Press is a forthcoming hub for Southern art, literature, and culture.  With a particular focus on emerging artists and writers, Yellowhammer seeks to illuminate the intersection between traditional Southern culture and its effect on contemporary artists.
We will begin accepting submissions for reviews, gallery showings, and artist/writer profiles on June 1, 2009.  Questions may [...]