Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...point" is the degree to which the project is fundamentally frustrating. Each time an image seems to frame Appalachia in a particular way, other images unsettle the frame. As Susan...
Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor
...for an international organization representing indigenous peoples. She studied at the Institute for American Indian Arts in Santa Fe and at Vermont College, where she completed an MFA in creative...
"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...Gazi Sanaullah (Islamic scholar), and Pragyananda Bhikkhu (Assistant Director, Ramu Central Sima Bihar) endorsed preventive measures and appeared in short social media videos in support of wearing masks, maintaining social...
Single Centers of Creation?
...Pale Salamander Desmognathus wrighti Pigmy Salamander Pseudotriton ruber* Red Salamander Plethodon jordani Red-cheeked Salamander Plethodon shermani Red-legged Salamander Eurycea "Sandhills Eurycea" Desmognathus santeetlah Santeetlah Dusky Salamander Desmognathus monticola Seal Salamander...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
Review "I don't need a map to tell me where I am today." —Mike Cooley The Drive-By Truckers have always done their best and most arresting work about place. They...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...Church numbered among its congregants many enslaved persons. No traces of the Centenary Institute survive in today's Summerfield, other than its weathered and worn front steps, which can be just...
Besieged Terrain
...today. Site of a strip mine on the south-southeast border of Robinson Forest, Kentucky, 2009. Photograph courtesy of Kentucky Heartwood. The technique used to get the coal, called mountain top...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...they had been terrorized into testifying falsely by the police.1Bob Herbert, "A Death in Destrehan," New York Times, February 1, 2007. Adam Turner, Gil Scott-Heron at the Regency Ballroom, San...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...watched the moon circle down. Mama sang a song to us often: “See the Man in the Moon. Mama gonna come back soon. But don’t you worry none. She won’t...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...that our worlds never fall apart, in taking the day-to-day for granted. We like to think we know better (“Here today, gone tomorrow,” and all that). Whatever we know doesn’t...