Call and Response: by Mississippi Senior Citizens and Public High Schoolers

by Katy Simpson Smith (Editor)

Selected by the Millsaps College Storytelling Class ; foreword by Alysia Burton Steele ; preface by Katy Simpson Smith.

Preface -- Foreword -- Workshops -- HOME -- "Marrying at Age 13" / Maeren Thomas (Greenwood, MS) -- "The chocolate pudding" / Katie Measells (Flowood, MS) ; Joshua Faust, South Pike High School -- "Born with backwards feet" / Willie Mae Harper (Morton, MS) ; Deanna Wilbourn, Rosa Scott School -- "Growing up too soon" / Jimmie Epperson (Grenada, MS) ; Michelle Luo, Mississippi School for Math and Science -- "Neighbors with a movie star" / Hazel Niblo (Clinton, MS) ; Chloe Russell, Mississippi School of the Arts ; Max Townsend, Raleigh High School -- "Driving Daddy" / Fredna Powell (Meridian, MS) ; Irene Bishop, Rosa Scott School -- "A father's rejection" / Velma Seaton (Jackson, MS) ; Kayla Wilbert, Murrah High School ; Maleigh Crespo, West Marion High School ; Gauge Bourgeois, West Marian High School -- "A husband's death" / Inex Lee (Jackson, MS) ; Caitlin Smith, West Marion High School -- "A man came through the window" // Hazel Niblo (Clinton, MS) ; Victoria Jerde, Mississippi School of the Arts -- "A fight with Byron de la Beckwith, Jr." / Bill Kirby (Greenwood, MS) ; Lyric Miller, Harrison Central High School -- "Harboring a fugitive" / Samuel Woodbury (Flowood, MS) ; Imani Skipwith, Mississippi School of the Arts -- "A public hanging" / Bill Kirby (Greenwood, MS) ; Denzale Estes, Louisville High School ; Jordan White, Louisville High School ; Jarvis Craft, West Marion High School -- "Remembering Emmett Till" / Roosevelt Williams (Greenwood, MS) ; Jeffrey Caliedo, Murrah High School ; Lanay Peavey, West Marion High School.
WORK -- "Silver Pennies" / Elizabeth "Peanut" Luckett Simmons (Ridgeland, MS) -- "Shelling peas" / Gladys Reed (Clinton, MS) ; Tyler Davis, Mississippi School of the Arts ; Alasia Wilson, Raleigh High School -- "Chopping cotton" / Billy DePriest (Eupora, MS) ; Violet Jira, Mississippi School for Math and Science - "Delivering papers" / James Tucker (Mantachie, MS) ; Alayna Hyland, South Pontotoc High School -- "The hard worker" / Alice Carney (Meridian, MS) ; Anna French, Rosa Scott School -- "Best Cowboy in Mississippi" / Joew Scott (Centreville, MS) ; Dariyona Turner, Wilkinson County High School -- "Crashing into the fire hydrant" / Wes Busbee (Ridgeland, MS) ; Jaelyn Ware, Vancleave High School -- "Cooking and hunting" / Luna Ferrell (Morton, MS) ; Emily Adcock, Rosa Scott School -- "Hauling tomato cores" / Samuel Woodbury (Flowood, MS) ; Charlie Thompson, Mississippi School of the Arts.
SCHOOL -- "A lesson in the principal's office" / Thomas Royals (Flowood, MS) -- "The mean teacher" / Ruby Prewitt (Morton, MS) ; Sarah Grace Shurden, Rosa Scott School -- "School bullies" / Wes Busbee (Ridgeland, MS) ; Sarah Lewis, Germantown High School ; Jorden Gilbert, Germantown High School -- "Winning the basketball game" / Billie Hitt (Eupora, MS) ; V'anche Seiber, Wilkinson County High School -- "The girlfriend's surprise" / Charles Weatherall (Grenada, MS) ; Gracie Cox, South Pontotoc High School -- "Picking a husband" / Helen Jenkins (Eupora, MS) ; Tyra Brown, Kosciusko High School -- "Wild child" / Jeannette JWilliams (Jackson, MS) ; Patrick Benedict, West Marion High School ; Maya McFadden, Murrah High School -- "Trip to New Orleans" / Doris Turner Box (Greenwood, MS) ; Madison Scout Wypyski, Mississippi School for Math and Science -- "Country dances" / Carolee Woodward (Centreville, MS) ; Mady Grace Pogue, Vancleave High School -- "Slow dancing at the prom" / Babara Bourn (Clinton, MS) ; Kerri Bland, Mississippi School of the Arts -- "Meeting their true love" / Charlene and Sonny Windmeyer (Meridian, MS) ; Katelyn Morgan, Northeast Lauderdale High School ; Rashodric Wilson, Northeast Lauderdale High School ; Neely Kiihnl, Rosa Scott School ; Lily Wallace, Ridgeland High School.
FUN -- "Corn cob fights" / Samuel Woodbury (Flowwod, MS) -- "Picking berries" / Inez Lee (Jackson, MS) ; Haley Stringer, West Marion High School -- "How to catch a fish" / Virgil Homer Harrison (Morton, MS) ; Linasia Tickles, Wilkinson County High School -- "The fashion show" / Patsy Roberts Levell (Grenada, MS) ; Shelby Osterhout, South Pontotoc High School -- "Riding in the Hills" / Emma Comer (Mantachie, MS) ; Katelyn Odom, Kosciusko High School ; Adyson Poole, Kosciusko High School -- "The boxer" / Billy DePriest (Eupora, MS) ; Charlie Wright, South Pontotoc High School -- "Learning on the streets" / Brenda Dupree (Jackson, MS) ; Shakerria Conerly, West Marion High School -- "Breaking an arm" / Helen Jenkins (Eupora, MS) ; Peggy McMillen, South Pontotoc High School -- "Throwing mud pies at the train" / Luther Lamb, Jr. (Flowood, MS) ; Savannah Phelps, Mississippi School of the Arts ; Zoe Conner, Mississippi School of the Arts -- "Hippie baptism" / Billy Foster (Jackson, MS) ; Jeffrey Caliedo, Murrah High School.

119 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2019

About the author

Katy Simpson Smith attended Mount Holyoke College and received a PhD in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She has been working as an Adjunct Professor at Tulane University and is the author of We Have Raised All of You: Motherhood in the South, 1750-1835. Her debut novel, The Story of Land and Sea, was published by Harper in August 2014. She lives in New Orleans.