Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
Welcoming Comment from Natasha Trethewey Natasha Trethewey, Welcoming Comment, 2014. About the Speaker Natasha Trethewey is a Pulitzer-Prize winning poet (Native Guard, Mariner Books, 2006) and former poet laureate of...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...town—places like Pulse, sandwiched between an auto-tinting business and a Dunkin' Donuts—would have seemed radical to you, in fierce need of protection. Yet you have become accustomed to thinking your...
When the Border Crossed Me
...me, let alone foreign workers. Yet, on that hot afternoon thirty years ago, I joined the thousands of farmers and other business owners who have hired people who have traveled...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...the murdering, but who was only a relative of one the real masterminds: a cabal of politicians, nonprofit leaders, businessmen, police, and meth cookers who stage gruesome murders, kidnap children,...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...a second-class student who was excluded from the stock theater productions, the message finally reached Adrienne. The goal of performing on the legitimate theater stage was for her, as a...
Editorial Style Guide
...work opportunity for the newest class of workers: first white women, then Black women and men, and finally Latin American immigrants. Southern Spaces has a team of managing staff: Allen...
Regions of Alabama
Video Part 2: Dr. Flynt offers an historical-geographical perspective on Alabama's economy from the antebellum era through 20th century Part 3: Dr. Flynt discusses the importance of a sense...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...deaths in Mississippi each year is eight."2Clay Harden, "Tornadoes Slam Mississippi: Families, Businesses Sort through Rubble," Jackson [Mississippi] Clarion-Ledger, February 27, 2001, 7A. Unlike states in Tornado Alley (which generally...
#598, Common Meter
...And here my spirit waiting stands, Till God shall bid it fly. 3) ‘Tis he, by his almighty grace That forms thee fit for heaven: And...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...will defeat me and my tribe. Who is he to imagine he will kill me with his songs, sacred or commonplace? Who is he to be sure that his spirits...