From A Field Guide to Etowah County
Bluets, larkspur, common violets in the jimson and queen-anne's-lace, tangles of boxwood and honeysuckle and smilax in hydrangea and pine, thick from which Spring Azures drift, among the first to...
Packin' Four Corner Nabs
...afraid to land case he might get landed on Sadie is so big to me she’s the midnight blue of sky just swings and swings with fear of God human...
Putting up Beans
...burners gassed up blue, I filled four steel washtubs with seventy pint jars each-- forty if they were quart sized Masons. The barn itself layered in rafters for hanging sticks...
The Change
FOR THE SHARECROPPER I LEFT BEHIND IN '79 Thirteen years ago, before bulk barns and fifth gear diesel tractors, we rode royal blue tractors with tool boxes big enough ...
Geography
...from the blues I don’t understand, I wade in water shallow enough to cross. On the bank at the other side, I look back at him as if across the...
Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]
...familiar format of a pieced block. Originally made from silk and tie-dyed to create decorative patterns in red or blue, bandannas were among textiles imported from India in the eighteenth...
Substantiation
...one, hat pulled down, right behind. Three days later, the bluesman says, a plague of starlings gathered into little boys those who fished and found the dead man's foot. The...
Race
...when he traveled without his white wife to visit his siblings — now in New York, now in Harlem, USA — just as pale-skinned, as straight-haired, as blue-eyed as Paul,...
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
...Artist Award. A self-employed touring artist since 1998, Bridgforth has received support from Creative Capital, the MAP Fund, and the National Performance Network. Bridgforth's publications include love conjure/blues (Washington, DC:...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...This collage features a detail from the painting "Blue Suit, Faceless Man" by Sandy Solomon. Additional image credits available here. My mother would leave each morning to visit Mr. S....