Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...Union Band Society and Mount Zion Cemeteries. The old Methodist Burying Ground was purchased in 1808 by the Montgomery Street Church in Georgetown, one of the first Methodist churches in...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...a fully-fledged movement since we started in 2004. News of our endeavor spread quickly as we hammered, stapled, and stretched chicken wire on our new coop, most of which we...
My Grandmother's Plot in the Family Cemetery
...story is told by this place. The two of them lie beneath one stone, Mother and Father in cursive carved at the foot of the grave. My grandmother, as though...
Untitled Opening from Pinion: An Elegy
...what were the fields of tobacco, the shrunken pasture. One of the curing barns still stands, struggling against poison ivy, saplings, wisteria, but that insistent pull cannot undo the smell...
Aftermath
...sharp frame the window made of the darkness. I confess that last house was the coldest I kept. In it, I became formless as fog, crossing the walls, formless as...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
This morning when I went to play the scales the strings of the guitar were so cold they might have slept all night in the Holston's South Fork. And the...
Runaway
...Around it without stump or stumble. I left The door slightly open; no draft lives in Louisiana's summer. And how I could not move so quickly and away When twenty...
Horton newspaper
Horton Commercial, reprinted in Topeka Plaindealer. "Lynching Dead Negroes." January 31, 1902. "Had this lynching of a dead Negro occurred in Louisiana or Texas, it would be termed 'another Democratic...
Memphis, Tennessee images
...of Memphis basketball teams. Baseball Figures, Autozone Park Completed in 2000, Autozone Park is the home to the Memphis Redbirds, the AAA affiliate of the National League's St. Louis Cardinals....
At Liberty (1964)
Louis Allen, 31 January 1964, Liberty, Mississippi The morning train is turning like a compass needle now the night has folded all its schedules in the stands of pine...