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...
Letter: Blues
...hooks. A sidewalk crack in Washington, D.C. Will feed my city dirt roots. Wait for me. Published in The Venus Hottentot (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1990). Published: 10...
New Shades o'Death Creek
...had liked to stop and "rest his eyes." When they pulled onto the dirt shoulder and stopped, Lydde saw at last what her uncle had been talking about, what had...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...tell a dirty joke or make some ridiculous boast. We were drawn to the tangents that floated above and below the persona: his humor, narcissism, and personal connections to plants....
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...Scott and hear him unfurl his tale. Out of the dirt and onto the page, through the dreamy veil of imagination, the worm with feets came. My first acknowledgement of...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...The driveway is a rocky dirt road that winds up through a leafy tunnel. The two-story house, situated at the top of the hill, is simple white clapboard with columns...
The Change
...our anniversary. I drove the pick up down the dirt path by the empty fields and rented a shack for eighty dollars, the one with cardboard windows and a...
2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading
...by Copper Canyon Press in 2014. Brown is an assistant professor in the Creative Writing Program at Emory University. Kevin Young Part 2: Kevin Young reads “Ode to Old Dirty...
No Place
...Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991 (1991), S/HE (1995), Walking Back Up Depot Street (1999), and The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems (2003). Pratt's lecture "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do...
How I Shed My Skin
...inferiority, castigating blacks as lazy, ugly, smelly, dirty, sloppy, unruly, faulty, sorry. Seemingly told in jest, they united whites around racist ideology. "When we laughed at the joke[s], we accepted...