The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...I'm writing a poem is to allow whatever falls into it to fall into it. And if I'm allowing everything to fall into it, then all that I know will...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...in Helper's writings that can assist us in detecting the invisible but discernible presence of the Siamese Twins in his racial imagination. First, he was obsessed with the Chinese in...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...operates: no drugs, no violence, no disrespect. The Poor Monkey crowd is made up almost entirely of local regulars, and is usually integrated. It is not uncommon to meet an...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...current educational policies and practices at every level on children in extreme poverty. These children exist in significant numbers in school districts in every region and state in the country....
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...Church numbered among its congregants many enslaved persons. No traces of the Centenary Institute survive in today's Summerfield, other than its weathered and worn front steps, which can be just...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...restoration in the face of powerful white-dominated development interests is celebrated as a miraculous point of deep pride. It is located at the very top of Georgetown, one of the wealthiest...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...it is here that we learn the way that mental institutions operated in the wake of slavery. Despite Galt's insistence on 'intermingling,' Gonaver shows that Black patients in Virginia's asylums...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...as an English instructor on one-year contracts and living in a small, one-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Spartanburg. I still imagined I'd soon live elsewhere when I got the...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...I saw how, with the best intentions, people would attempt to implement change, perhaps win a victory, and then watch it slide away in a year or two because institutional...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...need to nurture the idea of reviewing, critiquing, and writing about visual art. It is important, because art movements are rarely reported on in real time. For this reason, I enjoy...