Junction City newspaper
...us a few boat loads of darkies, merely to give us a taste. In some places they are met with a flourish of patriotism and charity, in others with shot-guns...
Fall Creek
...by a man and woman wed less than a month, who let hoe and plow handle slip from hands, left rows half done, crossed dark waves of bottomland to lie...
Excerpt from Eudora Welty's "Where is the Voice Coming From?" (1963)
From Eudora Welty's "Where is the Voice Coming From?" (1963): Something darker than him, like the wings of a bird, spread on his back and pulled him down. He climbed...
The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron
The poet tries to make the heron a god, but the heron does not care. The heron wades along the shore, a dark body absorbing light, patience stopping time. The...
Failed Memory Exercise
...flowerbeds For the pumps and grease rack of the new Shell; But begin again, for the dark green Lincoln rises To its lube and crests where Zetty's kitchen was: The...
Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road
...edge of the frame ready to disappear into the smoke or the heat or the trees. The mountain's dark behind me. My hand's on the latch, the last warmth still...
Anniversary
...and let this memory be a kind of no, polished now with all its bright and all its dark, and maybe the rain will fall like the water of this...
Good-Bye to All That?
...by 1 percent in Transylvania County. Hagan's defeat could be blamed on the links between the senator and president Obama. As her opponent and the dark money supporting him said...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Stephanie Dowda on Topophilia
...Dowda. Atlanta-based photographer Stephanie Dowda is a studio artist with the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center and also maintains a darkroom at the Goat Farm Arts Center. A Georgia State University...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...the worldwide hierarchy of race that places lighter people over darker people. As educator, writer, and political activist he dedicated his life to the struggle for racial equality. But long...