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
...sing to heal the language of its long service as a tool. Greatest of the fingerpickers, lost in dark mud, I do not know about the god of the fathers,...
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...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...that beginning in 1861, white Kansans tolerated black fugitives from Missouri out of self-interest rather than beneficence and employed lynchings and other racist violence to stymie black suffrage, segregate public...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
..."protected by the vigilant pair."2Ibid, 74. Just as we must hear a diversity of voices to understand the movement in a particular place, we must see imagery beyond the narrow...