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...
Good-Bye to All That?
...a whole. But in some ways, the vote in this county is a microcosm of what is happening across America. When my wife, Jane, and I moved here part-time in...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...shrouded in smog looms over it. It's a busted up Emerald City, desaturated and toxic, an unreal city in an industrialized Oz. HBO has three shows set in Louisiana: Treme,...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...horror is real and persistent, especially if you try to ignore it. About the Author Daniel Pecchenino is a lecturer in the writing program at the University of Southern California....
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...rosy story is important because a strong, inclusive and self-reflective, environmental movement is more important now than ever. Writing movement history is always political, especially when the social movements remain...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...his 1852 visit that "Mammoth Cave is as large as a county, but having another county on top of it, it is not represented, I believe, in the Kentucky Legislature....
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...in quilts prior to the era. Chrome orange, a mineral dye, was frequently used as an accent in red and green quilts in the mid-nineteenth century. Construction: Mary's quilt is...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...partner in the movie is, fittingly, one of her own former students, a vet of the War on Terror who is ill-equipped to deal with Olivia's defiant children, in spite...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...about all immigrants in Florida. We were just doing one town." I said, "If somebody had died in that story or if those police officers who came in had actually...
"Aint that Something?"
...Gipe captures its looming presence in an illustration of the word in all capital letters; Dawn says, "It was the first time I ever heard the word." (302). Prescription pill...