Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...younger brother who till eat their picnic lunch. She is twelve years old and it is her school's Easter break. Her father has taken time off from his job and...
In the Queen City: A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library
..."At Sun Ra's Grave," and "Walt Whitman in Alabama." About Jake Adam York Raised near Gadsden in northeast Alabama by his steelworker father and his mother, a history teacher, Jake...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...state flag. —Gwen Magee Southern Heritage/Southern Shame, 2001. © Gwendolyn A. Magee. Pieced, quilted, and appliquéd fabrics, with cording. 22.5"x32.5". Collection of Michigan State University Museum, East Lansing, Michigan. Purchased...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...it. Reed seems to want to shock listeners, presumably by broadcasting what they might not normally hear in public discourse, at least before the 2016 Presidential campaign, but also by...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
Introduction The soil in the Mississippi Delta has everything a planter needs. Rooted in shallow soils, elm, cottonwood, and pecan trees line the hilly landscapes of eastern and southern Mississippi....
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...number seven had more than three family members who were hookworm sufferers. Twenty-nine cases reported that at least one family member had died of the disease, and in ten of...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...male. However, since at the least the 1970s, women have worked in the mines, including underground, albeit in small numbers. I use the language of "wives and widows" because most...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...Scott and other anti-statist anarchist scholars. "It creates its territorial and financial power" (122).3See James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Susannah Darrow on Arts Organizations in Atlanta
...arts in and from Atlanta to champion and support vibrant creative communities across the Southeast. In 2014, Georgia Trend Magazine selected Darrow as one of Georgia's "40 Under 40." In...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...inner-city enclaves in which it began to a more diffused presence in and around DC, including Baltimore and the eastern suburb of Prince George's County in Maryland. Hopkinson uses autobiographical...