Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...she has been published in journals such as AGNI online, The Believer, Barrelhouse, Blackbird, Black Warrior Review, Copper Nickel, Gulf Coast, and POETRY. As a student at the University of...
The Southern Quarterly's Special Issue on Natasha Trethewey
...its terrible beauty, its violent and troubled past,"2Natasha Trethewey, "How Seamus Heaney Influenced Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey," The Daily Beast, September 3, 2013, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/03/how-seamus-heaney-influenced-poet-laureate-natasha-trethewey.html, quoted in Joan Wylie Hall, "Guest...
At Sun Ra's Grave
...hat and bedsheet robe, and even the house is gone, the room where you played by radio light, slowly casting off your names. * Now derelicts keep the rails from...
Quilting Conversation
...Marquetta Johnson Marquetta Johnson, fourth-generation quilter and textile artist, discusses how her quilting techniques have developed over a lifetime, and how she uses her creativity to inspire new generations of...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...a decrease from its 1967 Cold-War-era high of 31,255. The use of only a fraction of these weapons would render vast quantities of the earth uninhabitable. Hans M. Kristensen and...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...for plaintiff because he did not derive his income from whites, because he regularly paid his poll tax, and because—unlike most blacks—he was a registered Democrat who could plausibly claim...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...Timothy Pigford testified before a House subcommittee and recounted his experiences in eastern North Carolina. After attending the University of North Carolina at Wilmington for several years in the late...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...As the black fiddler Howard Armstrong recalled, musicians performing at dances in east Tennessee around 1920 had to be able to perform an eclectic repertory. Because everyone seemed to want...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...who were born before or during World War II and lived in Atlanta or the US South during most of their adulthood or at least prior to the late 1960s....
Bricking the Church
Poem Robert Morgan reads his poem "Bricking the Church," 2014. Bricking the Church At the foot of Meetinghouse Hill where once the white chapel pointed among junipers and pulled a...