Bodies and Souls
...feel the challenges of life and complexity of relationships in their own way. In 2006, Mississippi had one of the lowest number of physicians per capita in the nation (177...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...(1993). He has served as mentor for a number of leading garden designers throughout the US South, including Sanchez. In the summer, Steve filmed a session with Gainey during which...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...Elmendorf, Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos, and Christopher S. Warshaw In Support of Appellees/Respondents, Merrill v. Milligan, July 18, 2022, 7–8, https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/21-1086/230239/20220718132621523_91539%20HARVARD%20BRIEF%20PROOF3.pdf. The brief notes that these numbers do not include settlements....
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...the highest COVID mortality rates in the US, and those most impacted were poor, working class, and people of color.4"COVID-19 Mortality by State," CDC, Accessed June 22, 2023, https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/covid19_mortality_final/COVID19.htm. The...
Bunk Richardson
...its twines, thicker near the river, from which it's climbed weaker and weaker, all night long. Published in Murder Ballads (2005). Text may vary slightly from the video reading....
At Cornwall Furnace
...brought me here stands waist-deep in the rivers, taking pictures near a deadwood stump when her feet find something odd. Together we struggle from the water a mass of pig-iron...
My Grandmother's Plot in the Family Cemetery
...by her own design removed, is buried in the corner, outermost plot, with no one near, her married name the only sign she belongs. And at that, she could be...
Sweep
...in his mouth, are cut down, and I'm shifting on the balls of my feet, bobbing and saving one nearly hopeless feint, one last plunge for the blockers and the...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...and sent you back to pick and sing for nearly forty years in church and at parties and to get by as a hired hand, practicing fatherhood. Greatest of the...
Brass Knuckles
...under the patina of blackened brass, against my jaw, is the blood of a man my grandfather beat near death. Becawse? he chuckled when I was eight, I didn't like...