"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...I specifically reference the Pulse tragedy in my work with the number 49. A lot of my work features the multiplicity of that number. The blood slide pieces in What...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...in 2003. In shocking fashion, an aged artist reflected upon fleeting life and the inevitability of death. When Cash sings, "You could have it all / My empire of dirt,"...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...The road is lined by barren brush and trees. They cast shadows on the dirt that intersect with faint traces of tire tracks. The second photograph, taken the following winter,...
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
...Postcard” Part 7: Alexander reads and discusses “The Dirt Eaters” and “Ars Poetica #100: I Believe” Text of Poems Referenced "Ellipsis," "Letter: Blues," "Frank Willis," "Talk Radio, D.C.," "Race," Phillip Levine's...
Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions
...and Ann Pancake. "Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake." Southern Spaces, May 30, 2017. https://southernspaces.org/2017/closer-ground-conversation-ann-pancake. Yaeger, Patricia. "Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology." Southern Spaces, February...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...and that night, at the bar, somebody asked me what I'd been photographing and I told him, 'Oh just dirt by the side of the road. I've been photographing democratically.'"5Holzeimer...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...tribe is strong behind our drums and sliced trees. We are strong against these whites with sticks like dirty breath, these silly children snatching toys. They do not see me....
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...venue to the "Race Course," and reduced the number of persons for sale: Joseph Bryan’s Advertisements for the “Sale of Slaves”, The Savannah Daily Morning News, February 27, 1859. Mortimer...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...was nearly emptied of life. If measured by the number of lives it claimed, Katrina does not qualify as the worst disaster in our history. But it was far and away...