Three AM and the Stars Were Out
...dreaming, what life they wake to — thinking such things, or sometimes just watching for what stays unseen except on country roads after midnight, the copperheads soaking up what heat...
Off-Season
...we returned to what we both knew and belonged to. The off-season only an off-shoot in what we were meant to be. You never did know this part of what...
Fall Creek
As though shedding an old skin, Fall Creek slips free from fall's weight, clots of leaves blackening snags, back of pool where years ago local lore claims clothes were shed...
Six Yellow Stanzas
...me and kiss me, talk that talk. 3. I don't know how to talk that talk. I am visiting friends of a family friend. These Creole ways are something I...
Letter: Blues
Those Great Lake Winds Blow all around: I'm a light-coat man In a heavy-coat town. — Waring Cuney Yellow freesia arc like twining arms; I'm buying shower curtains, smoke alarms,...
Quilting Conversation
...quilters, students, and activists. Michael Moon Michael Moon considers quilts as kōans ("What is this?") and, with several vivid examples, ponders the intense emotional power and spiritual force that includes,...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...lynched African Americans for alleged offenses that challenged white supremacy, Villanueva argues that Anglos lynched Mexicans to police "citizenship and sovereignty" (5). Although Mexican Americans were "white by law" since...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...1861–1864 when, as Smith puts it: "The nation that had prided itself on its civilized control of the senses lost that control" (6). Smith's book is structured around five events,...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...never made it off the drawing board. Those that opened had few visitors. Landscapes of Exclusion details how park planners perpetuated white racism. In South Carolina, for example, fearing that...
DOIs and Altmetrics
...the circulation of a given piece, measuring circulation in badges that detail readers’ engagement. For example, the Altmetric page for Thomas Chase Hagood's "Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom", shows how many...