Readership Reports and the Benefits of Open Access Publishing
...year. This year we also added cumulative totals for pageviews and unique readers since 2008, when we began tracking visits to our site with Google Analytics. As a digital open...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...study the National Park Service commissioned on LGBTQ historic sites. I contributed a chapter on Miami that narrated existing (surviving) physical sites. This work challenged me to think very differently...
Birth Right
Birth Right: Video and Essay Birth Right. A short video by Neeta Kirpalani and Emily Jackson, 2008. Midwifery is controversial in Alabama, both legislatively and in debates about women's health...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
Readings Fall Creek As though shedding an old skin, Fall Creek slips free from fall's weight, clots of leaves blackening snags, back of pool where years ago local lore...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...of Federal K–12 Emergency Funds Could Pose Challenges for States, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Feb. 2024, https://www.cbpp.org/sites/default/files/2-28-24sfp.pdf. The legislature will be forced to cut K–12 education funding and/or...
Putting up Beans
...filled with great leaves of tobacco, green as beans. Though soon to be gold and brown cured. Now nowhere near Winston or Salems. Not even close to American Spirit. More...
#209, Long Meter
...3) Awake, O heavenly wind, and come, Blow on this garden of perfume: Spirit divine, descend and breathe A gracious gale on plants beneath. 4) Make...
I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees
...who gave to the leaves of one yew the names of his own dead. Anyway the only spirits I can call in this place are the stench of a possum...
Chattahoochee (excerpt)
...cover thee? — Job 38: 33-34 1 Like a spirit moving through the flower of moonlight hanging in the water, through the depth that never warms where carp and catfish...
Quilting Conversation
...quilters, students, and activists. Michael Moon Michael Moon considers quilts as kōans ("What is this?") and, with several vivid examples, ponders the intense emotional power and spiritual force that includes,...