Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
...delivered "Praise Song for the Day" for the inauguration of President Barack Obama. She is also the first recipient of the Alphonse Fletcher, Sr. Fellowship for work that "contributes to...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...True Detective a lousy mystery with a cheesy villain is to miss the critical work this ending does. Past their glory days, the detectives, both living secret lives of loneliness...
Birdhouses
...bluebird house he'd nailed to the top of a post. The day was overcast, but enough light fell on the house that it caught my eye—such a quiet, cool, and...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...the nostalgic reminiscences of a collector's career. Roots music, both the new iterations produced today as well as earlier songs and styles that continue to circulate, is often placed at...
2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading
Greetings by Natasha Trethewey Natasha Trethewey introduces the 2014 Callaloo Conference. I am Natasha Trethewey, the Director of the Creative Writing Program and I’m pleased to welcome you to this...
The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills
...Today, the area has become a prominent suburban enclave near Atlanta's urban center. Celebrated landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted drew the original plans for Druid Hills in the late nineteenth...
The Bulletin—July 2, 2013
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. On Tuesday, June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court ruled five–four to strike down section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965....
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
Essay Another Mother's Day has come and gone and still no officially supported memorial honors the Freedom Riders at the site where civil rights workers braved the vicious firebombing of...
The Change
...for days through thirty acres and chopped them out with hoes. Hoes, made long before from wood and steel and sometimes (even longer ago) from wood and...
Work
...life. But fate may lead you down a surprising path. One day you may wake up and find you had more choices than you knew. You leave your bed, your...