Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...lights on, businesses like Wal-Mart are becoming the major employers. When mines close and the number of miners decreases, company housing may deteriorate, be abandoned, or replaced by mobile homes....
The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron
The poet tries to make the heron a god, but the heron does not care. The heron wades along the shore, a dark body absorbing light, patience stopping time. The...
Blue Ridge paper mill, Pigeon Forge River, Canton, North Carolina, 2008
The Blue Room, Greenwood, Mississippi, 2007
Letter: Blues
Those Great Lake Winds Blow all around: I'm a light-coat man In a heavy-coat town. — Waring Cuney Yellow freesia arc like twining arms; I'm buying shower curtains, smoke alarms,...
"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...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...Anglophone Caribbean's plantation zone. The founding of a settlement that became Charleston, South Carolina, by a group of planters from Barbados in the 1670s functions as the analytical core of...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...got the prettiest place on earth." The Bathtub's houses are made from castaway metal and lumber, its people jettisoned by the currents of capitalism. It's too close to the water:...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...published in a best-selling segregationist pamphlet in an attempt to discredit the behavior of black activists. It was also published in Jet magazine where it questioned the unjust use of...
How I Shed My Skin
...read widely. He absorbed novels and teen magazines, and caught glimpses of new classmates Rhonda and Ursula's Ebony and Jet. He credits the media, including television, with introducing him to...