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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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