Quilting Conversation
...specializing in the art of the United States, with an emphasis on the interwar period. Marquetta Johnson is a self-taught artist and fourth-generation quilter, known for using innovative hand-dyeing techniques....
Inside Poor Monkey's
...are generally eager to talk. Crowds rarely exceed two dozen at any given time. Traditional blues bands as well as fraternities from nearby Delta State University sometimes book the lounge,...
The Place of Appalachia
...(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001); see the discussion in Doreen Massey, Space, Place, and Gender (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994), 162–172; Mary K. Anglin, "Moving Forward: Gender and...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...Cambridge University Press, 1981); Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984); Christine Stansell, City of...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...can all have enough." Charles Reagan Wilson, editorial board: I have just finished Albert Camus's The Plague, which I had never read. It's a profound book. And his portrayal of...
An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim
...Prize for his book Salvation Blues: 100 Poems, 1985-2005. His eight other books include Elegy for the Southern Drawl a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize, and Transparent Gestures ,...
Congregation
...Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize, and the 2001 Lillian Smith Award for Poetry. In 2003, her second collection Bellocq's Ophelia won the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book...
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
...the oral history interviews for the book? Themes of spirituality, sexual fluidity, nomenclature, and queerness (9:08). Part Four Johnson acknowledges several women in his oral history project who have helped...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...Family (Sarabande 2002). She is completing a third book of poetry and her first book of collected fiction. Cover Image Attribution Horton Mill Covered Bridge Over Black Warrior River, February...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...a Region in My Mind," New Yorker, November 17, 1962, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/11/17/letter-from-a-region-in-my-mind. "[The people back home] didn't care about us no way," Scott said, speaking of whites' reception of black veterans....