Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...we have broken: a human cosmos that may be dirtied beyond repair. Where to begin? Charles Wright's poem "In Praise of Thomas Hardy" takes us straight to the heart of...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
Through all the sorrow of the Sorrow Songs there breathes a hope—a faith in the ultimate justice of things. The minor cadences of despair change often to triumph and calm...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...in poetry Part 6: Morgan discusses the tension between the particular and the universal Poems Terroir That quality that seems unique, as thriving from a special spot of soil, air flow...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...Brothers, An Exhibit with an airplane made of cigars at the Florida State Fair, Tampa, Florida, 1941. Catalog no.: B29-f-00003493. Burgert Brothers, A man serenading a señorita at the Davis...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...homosexuals." Bill Smith, Georgia State Capitol, Summer 1971 The television camera stared at Bill as he strode down the sidewalk. He wore his usual explosion of red-brown hair and goatee,...
Walt Whitman in Alabama
...from his hair on the steps of local churches. Maybe it was the end of many letters, the last of hospital days, another sleight to make his hand come alive...
Packin' Four Corner Nabs
...back never had an older woman fend for me before defended plenty though guess it’s fair in all Union guys they just pull in and pull back like a boxer...
Making History
...with lentils, flash bombs, lo-fi, hi-speed. Somewhere is a petition I should be signing. Somewhere a parakeet is driving a tractor, and I am missing it. A pair of scissors...
Sweep
...Hammond, who will think too slowly and turn his Air Force jet into the Arizona desert, and Don Appleton, who will drive out on a country road for a shotgun...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...advertised his cleaning and repair service: "Bring in your sewing machines and have them made good as new." The fabric on the back of the Tulip quilt is a fine...