An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...coming from the east and you have the sea level rise coming from the west. Those two are coming together in the same place and having this devastating effect. Dimmitt:...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...certainly came of age within the earshot of all those ribald rumors that rippled through the hills and hollows of western North Carolina. There are at least two central motifs...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...General William Richardson Davie's tomb dominates this Davie memorial. It stands at the east side, at the end of a path from the entrance on the west. The stones of...
Scarecrow
...hang And keep your eyes straight, You will see a poplar At the far edge of the field. There, A body once swayed, Burning from foot to breast. The crows...
Atchison newspaper
...there the matter will end for all time. 'It will not look right to eastern people if we do not condemn the lynching,' said one legislator yesterday,'but personally I approve...
Julius Hartman
..."The low green valley that borders Ponce de Leon creek has long been noted for its reposeful beauty. "Ponce de Leon spring bubbles up at its eastern extremity, and the...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...bodies in the trees, twirling legless. I sang until morning. I sang, and the white ones were here sniffing an empty breast. They are here but I cannot die. My...
Excerpt from Saints at the River
She follows the river trail downstream, leaving behind her parents and younger brother who till eat their picnic lunch. She is twelve years old and it is her school's Easter...
At Sun Ra's Grave
...Blanton waits his verdict, where Cherry waits for trial. They tissue like smoke over the interstate, split, descending, into Fountain Heights, into Oak Hill's graves, into east-side projects where clothesline...
Prayer of the Backhanded
...best beatings lack Intention, the mark of the beast. Bring back to life the son Who glories in the sin Of immediacy, calling it love. God, save the man whose...