2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading
...editor of eight others. His previous book Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels won a 2012 American Book Award and Jelly Roll: A Blues was a finalist for the...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...appearance of listlessness, numbness, and a general lack of energy. . . . It produces protracted insomnia and may lead to temporary insanity." In short, marijuana was "intensely harmful."31"A Yarn...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...and architectural decay. The soundscape intensifies the experience. Bey worked with vocalist and composer Imani Uzuri to articulate the narrative perspective of “Evergreen” where the camera does not reflect a...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...economy toward production for the capitalist marketplace from the very beginning. The analytical and quantitative consciousness of Euro-Americans emphasized efficient management and increasing control over nature from the establishment of...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...American construction and real estate executive, came on the Atlanta market for $675,000. The listing video characterizes Russell's home as a hub for both real estate transactions, political strategy sessions,...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
Introduction This here tale begins in the summer of that year, whatever year it was . . . The year don't matter. The national situation don't even matter, because even...
August, 1959: Morning Service
...and the gravestones leaned as if even the dead were listening. Published in Virginia Quarterly Review (Summer 2000). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 6 December...
Walt Whitman in Alabama
...down the channel to listen for the baby's dreams — all years after the whorehouses, the fires, Reconstruction and true religion came, after Whitman said his piece and left the...
Sweep
...has died form each class. Seamless gray sky, horns from the four-lane, the lot’s oil slicks rainbowing and dimpling with rain. I have been home for three days, listening to...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...him, he asked, "Who is playing the other guitar?" He darted and slurred, a syncopation, a waltz evolving to jig. By slowing the record down and listening, a phrase at...