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Rooted Re-Run: Delana Karimi-Tavakol
"Home is where I can be authentically and unapologetically myself. Mississippi taught me that."
Chronicles from Parchman #12: Robbery by Default
Incarcerated writer L. Patri on the sorry (and scammy) state of prison telecommunications
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Book Club: SPLIT THE BABY with Lauren Rhoades and Catherine Simone Gray
Our June 2025 Book Club Selection (90s Glamour Shots Included)
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At the Synagogue in the Heart of the Delta
Rooted founder Lauren Rhoades on rekindling her Jewish identity in the overwhelmingly Christian Deep South
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Rooted Re-Run: W. Ralph Eubanks
"Seeking to understand the place where I am from has become a spiritual necessity."
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Rooted Re-Run: Maria Zeringue
"Being from the Deep South, I feel like I am always living in tension with what I love about this region and what really angers me about it."
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May 2025

Neesha Powell-Ingabire's Personal History Intersects with the Collective History of Coastal Georgia
A replay of our book club discussion of COME BY HERE with author Neesha Powell-Ingabire
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Reading THE ROAD in South Mississippi
An essay by Joseph Peterson on what leading a prison book club has taught him about guilt, gratitude, and humanities education
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Mississippi Native: Grace Greene
"I love Jackson—it’s a place worth fighting for."
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SPLIT THE BABY on Tour
A dispatch on writing as a Mississippi transplant, plus some upcoming book tour info
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Mississippi Expat: Robert Busby
"Being raised in rural Mississippi can come with its traumas, but it also gave me a unique specificity and sensory experience that informs so much of…
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Possum Town
Two poems by Kendall Dunkelberg
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