Antietam
We all went in a yellow school bus, on a Tuesday. We sang the whole way up. We tried to picture the bodies stacked three deep on either side of...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...prison than out. "The most dangerous woman in America," one prosecutor called her; "She is a wonder," her friend Carl Sandberg wrote; "The walking wrath of God," Upton Sinclair declared....
Sonic Zora in Florida
...5, 2000, Zora Neale Hurston Box 1, Stetson Kennedy Papers, uncataloged at the time of archival research. Kennedy wrote obsessively about Hurston in a range of published material and unpublished...
Packin' Four Corner Nabs
...a teamster card on the visor Published in Off-Season City Pipe: Work (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2005). Published: 14 October 2010 © 2010 Allison Hedge Coke and Southern Spaces...
Putting up Beans
...don’t wear aprons much anymore. Published in Off Season City Pipe: Work (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2005). Published: 14 October 2010 © 2010 Allison Hedge Coke and Southern Spaces...
Off-Season
...you said I couldn’t be. Published in Off Season City Pipe: Work (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2005). Published: 14 October 2010 © 2010 Allison Hedge Coke and Southern Spaces...
Old Elementary
...released, and he was kept after, inside, in there, for punishment, in there for some small forgotten thing. Published: 26 October 2009 © 2009 Claudia Emerson and Southern Spaces...
Untitled Opening from Pinion: An Elegy
...I have come home for this. Published in Pinion: An Elegy (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002). Published: 26 October 2009 © 2009 Claudia Emerson and Southern Spaces...
Aftermath
...sentence spoken the second time—truer, perhaps, with the blunt edge of a practiced tongue. Published in Late Wife (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005). Published: 26 October 2009...
Sweep
...I'm dropping back deep in the secondary under the chill and pipe smoke of a canceled October while the sweep rolls toward me from the line of scrimmage, and Myles...