Excerpt from Saints at the River
...in pain and then the pain is gone along with the dark as bright colors shatter around her like glass shards, and she remembers her sixth-grade science class, the gurgle...
Remembering Jake Adam York (1972–2012)
...York was a poet of great vision and a deeply humane intelligence. His work to chart the history of his native South and the civil rights movement—its violence and erasures—represents...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...of archival footage. Filmed with a hand-cranked, 1920s Debrie Parvo camera, these scenes, says Wenders, produce "a really beautiful and authentic effect and transports you right back in time—so successfully,...
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
Photo Essay Map of Memphis Neighborhoods (Base Map Data: US Census Bureau) Photographer's Statement While I didn't seek out hand-painted signs, I noticed their emergence as a pattern in my...
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective Part 2: Davis discusses connections between enslaved African labor, trans-Atlantic trade, and emerging anti-slavery movements Part 3: Davis discusses three major factors...
Bricking the Church
Poem Robert Morgan reads his poem "Bricking the Church," 2014. Bricking the Church At the foot of Meetinghouse Hill where once the white chapel pointed among junipers and pulled a...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...sisters pose for the camera as just to the right of the central triptych a little boy hoes a patch of bare dirt in the background. In the middle, Ruth...
Runaway
...So no light could find my back, no right hand could break from Steering. One fist clenched My brown bag as I sniffed for magnolia and made a deal with...
New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
...support should not be a radical orientation. Amistad is taking one big, progressive step in the right direction. The Kickstarter campaign can be found here. Please consider donating to this...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
Video https://vimeo.com/126188419 Poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers presents her poem "Tuscaloosa: Riversong," July 29, 2005, beside the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Poem text. Part 2: Jeffers examines the river...