Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...night laborers, nightcrawlers. Cottonmouths. Plantation houses on Indian Mounds. Jukes. Blues. Open roads. Dark and lonely cells. Government assistance. Government neglect. Lots not yet vacant but long past occupied. Ribs,...
Dirty Little Story
...blue. We march down to the public place where even those without lakeside homes and boats can go to get their toes wet. We struggle to the bottom of the...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...harps. I know a small man's largeness can be a pistol in the dark, but it can also play. The name of joy is music. Published in Salvation Blues:...
I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees
...that I cannot understand — rise in its indifferent passion. Published in Salvation Blues: One Hundred Poems, 1985-2005 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), 8-9. Published: 22 January 2009 © 2009...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...Kwon Kun's fifteenth-century Kangnido map resembles today's maps with north at the top of the map, and it illustrates a southward pointing continent of Africa. Yet the blue space in...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...interests and private profits over community needs and social justice initiatives.5Clyde Woods, "Katrina's World: Blues, Bourbon, and the Return to the Source," American Quarterly 61, no. 3 (2009): 448. Bourbon...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...gesturing toward musics of resistance and liberation, the blues and jazz that grow out of the Black Atlantic, situate a kind of black power at the point of trial. Radcliffe...
The Morning with Many Tongues
...the anthologies Blues Poems, Gathering Ground, The Ringing Ear, and Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. His first book, Blood Ties & Brown Liquor, was published by...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...river. In 1977, the water was clear, cerulean blue, and no one was living there. We paddled through hardwood forest. The creek is wide in places because that area is...
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
...future is my transitioning body and the pink, white, and blue flag I fly in the driveway. The author's home in Roanoke, Virginia, 2021. Photograph by and courtesy of...