Anniversary
...slumped in the street, and Seigenthaler, who tried to stop this, beaten down and shoved beneath his car, the police just blocks away. Whenever water's broken water moves to mend,...
Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities
...toward things that are farther away — as a rough analogue, though in reverse, to the historical layering process that formed the cityscape. In the parts of these cities that...
Early Roller Coaster Patents
"A flurry of patents [for roller coaster designs] issued in 1884 coincides approximately with Thompson's ride at Coney Island. The patents of Wood (US #291,261 Circular Gravity-Railway) and Stevens (US...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...contemporary depredations to amplify their calls to "save the land and people." Then, in 1996, Wilma Dunaway swept aside romantic visions of the Appalachian past with prodigious quantitative research, an...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...small community emerged from poverty and built thriving businesses in plastics and direct-marketing. Osburn is especially interested in how the Choctaws navigated their way through Mississippi's racial currents, as powerful...
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...
In the Queen City: A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library
A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library Part 2: York reads from “At Liberty (1961),” “At Liberty (1964),” and “Substantiation” Part 3: York reads from “At Sun Ra’s Grave” and...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
..."there are several million ways to murder."1James Baldwin, "We Can Change the Country," in The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings, ed. Randall Kenan (New York: Penguin Random House, 2010), 61....
Anniversary
Readings Jake Adam York reads the poem "Anniversary." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Consolation." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Darkly." Poem text. Jake Adam...
Packin' Four Corner Nabs
...still wild yet don’t know enough to be scared so I never am that’s how I got these scars here. Anyway, I follow Sadie she’s about fifty and weighs five...