Love and Death at Second-Line
...the man, called out to us and passed the bottle over the crowd. Back outside, the blind man lifted his dark shades to reveal scars from a shooting three years...
Artist Repertoire Index
...My Aching Head All Night Long Bad Whiskey and Bad Women Dark Cloud Rising Don’t Do Me Wrong No More Don’t the Moon Look Lonesome Eddie, Are You Ready? Going...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...way. Kara Walker, Darkytown Rebellion, 2001. Cut paper and projection on wall. Art critics and journalists make much of the powers of subversion in Kara Walker's works, how her pieces...
El Dorado newspaper
El Dorado Daily Walnut Valley Times. Untitled. April 22, 1893. "Let us not howl at the south for murdering 'niggers.' Up at Salina a mob hung a darkey for slashing...
At Liberty (1964)
...and the killer and the quiet of having never seen a thing. Quietly now, while his truck is idling, dark decides from all the county's limbs, shattering into birds that...
At Liberty (1961)
...so there is no photograph and no one sees the cotton boll wicking blood so there is no boll only a clear, white negative in the dark and a paper...
Vestibule
...that, in the darkened air of that chapel, fluttered its dusty wings around our heads. Published in The Boatloads (2008) Published: 24 November 2008 © 2008 Dan Albergotti and...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...last shadows, as the people thin, I see a dark woman humming. It could be 1945, or it could be today. She’s headed home, humming some songs she thinks I...
Untitled Opening from Pinion: An Elegy
...dark. Sometimes I find myself at the mouth of the road—the red dust so fine the wind lifts it like a scarf, and I walk down toward the house, past...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
Review A Gullah proverb warns, "every sick ain't fa tell de doctor" ("don't tell the doctor all your ailments"). After reading Sex, Sickness, and Slavery, the wisdom of that saying...