Sweep
...from my engine compartment a cluster of ruined hoses, twisted and curled together like a nest of blacksnakes, and whistles as he forages in the rack for more. Slowly, the...
Accidents Happen with Clockwork Regularity
...twelve dull movements of a slow dance. Something moves the ants for a while. Something moves you on. The sky is terribly the same, full of small engines, birdsong, momentary...
Day of action, Freedom Plaza, Washington, D.C., September 27, 2010
...a sit-in on Freedom Plaza. While mountaintop removal is often considered an Appalachian problem, this protest and its depiction of the federal Army Corps of Engineers points to the complexity...
The Bulletin—June 26, 2012
...living in and intellectually engaging with the US South. The Army Corps of Engineers is planning to close a controversial freshwater diversion that appeared to be building new land at...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...a succession of colonial governments. But Powell keeps his story anchored in the city itself, in the grid of streets that French engineers hoped would foster civic virtue and in...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...in graduate school at the University of Illinois, attended a number of singings in his home state in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Encountering Wesleyan’s strong ethnomusicology program, Bruce...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...abide by borders negotiated by the crown they had just overthrown. In anticipation of this invasion, Cherokees began to head west in search of places to ensure that they could...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...built environment and the experiences of its inhabitants—mark the city's particularities. Increasing numbers of cars, trolleys, buses, and taxis enabled movement between downtown and suburbs; rural and urban areas; "colored"...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...of the taint of whiteness and insult in the term, pointedly did not. Alice Dunbar-Nelson (best known for her New Orleans stories in The Goodness of St. Rocque [1899]) enunciated...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...from Passages North at Northern Michigan University. Her poems have appeared in anthologies such as The Best American Poetry 2010, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and Best New Poets 2005 and...