Remembering Jake Adam York (1972–2012)
...York was a poet of great vision and a deeply humane intelligence. His work to chart the history of his native South and the civil rights movement—its violence and erasures—represents...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
Reading John Lane reads the poem "Returning Home, Saxon Mills." Poem text. About the Author John Lane teaches environmental studies at Wofford College where he also directs the Goodall Center for...
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Alexander discusses growing up in NYC and Washington DC, DC as Upsouth, identifications with Blackness and southernness Part 3: Alexander discusses southernness and urban space, and...
Insistent Traces
Readings https://vimeo.com/134755182 Claudia Emerson reads the untitled opening from Pinion: An Elegy. View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134755765 Claudia Emerson reads the poem "Rent." View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134756419 Claudia Emerson...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...and New Orleans Rap (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007); Daron Crawford and Pernell Russell, Beyond the Bricks, (New Orleans: Neighborhood Story Project, 2009); Miller, Bounce; and Sakakeeny, Roll With...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...attorneys were rushed (the trial took place three weeks after the murder), had inadequate resources, made mistakes, but clearly they wanted convictions, and wanted them badly. Why did they not...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...literature. While Louis Rubin notes that critics could "justly feel uncomfortable . . . talking about an entity known as 'Southern Literature'" as opposed to individual authors, he insists on...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...consider the fact that The Los Angeles Review of Books has run not one, but two interviews with Franco, as well as a review, in the last six months about...
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...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...for human habitation. Those questions about his longtime hometown hurt, he admits, but he decided to respond to them constructively. He would explore why New Orleans had been built in...