Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
Interview Part 2: Morgan reads “Backwater” and discusses his history of coming to terms with his origins Part 3: Morgan reads “Heaven” and discusses the place of nostalgia in his poetry Part...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
Review The image on the front cover of New Deal Ruins reverberates prophetically. In March 1972, after only two decades of occupancy, the first of Pruitt-Igoe's thirty-three public housing towers...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
Blackbirds, Mississippi, photograph by Kathleen Robbins © 2007. See more at the Jennifer Schwartz Gallery. Review The Mississippi Delta and Louisiana Bayou have long lured photographers enchanted by their wide expanses of flat...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...W. Norton, 2010). About Sandra Beasley Sandra Beasley is a poet and nonfiction writer based in Washington DC. In 2011, her third book, Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...spatial relations of groups with legacies of conflict and division. In July we began our discussions with public policy advocates and congressional staffers in Washington. Most of the group's time...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...to test newly upheld federal prohibitions against segregation in interstate transportation. The CORE-sponsored rides were part of a months-long series of protests that stretched from diverse locales, including Washington, DC,...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
Video and Essay https://vimeo.com/391985688 Ossabaw Island is a barrier island on the Georgia coast. The island, which trends northeast–southwest, is about 14.5 kilometers (9 miles) long and 10.5 kilometers (6.6...
The Colonialist's Gaze
Presentation Closer Reading: Three Images from the Presentation Panorama of Armstrong standing at the summit of Signal Hill. Image courtesy of Lanny Thompson, 2017. Standing at the summit of Signal...
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
Blog Post I recently bought a crumbling old house in a historically gay neighborhood in Roanoke, Virginia. I met my ex-lover in this house five years ago. At the time...
Insistent Traces
...Arts and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Born in Chatham, Virginia, Claudia Emerson is the Arrington Distinguished Chair in Poetry at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia....