In the Queen City: A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library
...(2005), and A Murmuration of Starlings (2008), and his poems have appeared in various journals, including Blackbird, Diagram, Greensboro Review, Gulf Coast, H_NGM_N, New Orleans Review, Shenandoah, and Southern Review....
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...120mm film. What I liked most about the Holga was its less-than-automatic approach to winding through the frames. With a half turn, one could capture images on top of each...
Nigger Street 1937
McIntosh Street the sign reads like the apple red but not red delicious red but red like redeye gravy on grits at Gus's or red like stoplights but...
The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...basic design unit of a square from which a quarter circle appears to have been removed and replaced with a contrasting fabric. The particular pattern name, "Save All," and the...
History: The Parlor
...county probate records, which not only inventoried and appraised household furnishings, but occasionally indicated the location of items within the house. The late-nineteenth-century inventory of the estate of Harriet Evins...
Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]
...the handkerchiefs and sashing strips with a sewing machine to make the small quilt top. When Rosa quilted it, however, she did not take a haphazard approach, but used a...
Piedmont Blues
...sake of clarity, this essay defines the Piedmont blues region as spanning from Danville, Virginia to Atlanta, Georgia, running approximately 325 miles from northeast to southwest and being seventy-five to...
Early Roller Coaster Patents
"A flurry of patents [for roller coaster designs] issued in 1884 coincides approximately with Thompson's ride at Coney Island. The patents of Wood (US #291,261 Circular Gravity-Railway) and Stevens (US...
I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees
...branches and watch the exhausted laborers from the Burgreen Construction Company sit down in the shade, unwrapping their ham and salami and popping open their thermoses. Apparently, they too are...
Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road
...there. One of us is leaving. One of us is already gone. "Self-Portrait At A Bend in the Road" first appeared in The Northwest Review and will appear in Persons...