Zircon
Poem Zircon When my great-uncles dug for zircons on the mountainside and on the pasture hill a hundred years ago they'd no idea the little crystal bit they sought would...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
Review I remember well seeing Charles Moore's fire hose photographs from Birmingham in my hometown newspaper, the Louisville Courier-Journal. Six-years old in 1963, I had little understanding of the day's...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...Christopher J. Manganiello. Copyright © 2015 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher. www.uncpress.unc.edu. Manganiello organizes his analysis into three periods: New South (1890–1930),...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...2015, http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/thomas-harris-goes-lens-darkly. Department Store, Mobile, Alabama, 1956. Photograph 37.011 by Gordon Parks. Courtesy of and copyright by The Gordon Parks Foundation. Parks mastered creative expression in several artistic...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
Review Peter Harholdt, Radcliffe Bailey in his studio with Clean Up II, November 2010. Over the last two decades, Radcliffe Bailey has produced some of the most distinctive art in...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
Review Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See presents a rhapsodic argument in pictures and words for the preservation, restoration, and reestablishment of longleaf pine forests across the areas of the...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...Eggleston is the World's Greatest Photographer," The Independent, April 22, 2013, accessed June 26, 2013, http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/genius-in-colour-why-william-eggleston-is-the-worlds-greatest-photographer-8577202.html What Glover missed, however, was that this attention to the everyday and the ordinary...
Geography
Geography Natasha Trethewey reads her poem "Geography," 2010. Poem text. About the Poet Natasha Trethewey is a professor of English and the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at...
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
Video About the Speaker Born in 1933 to Irish immigrant parents, Constance Curry grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina. She graduated from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, where she...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...a beautiful future. Sources “Christgau’s Consumer Guide,” Village Voice, May 29, 1984. Jason Gross, “Lynda Stipe: Oh-OK,” Perfect Sound Forever. http://www.furious.com/perfect/lyndastipe.html. Art Harris, “O Little Town of Rock ‘n’ Roll:...