Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
Introduction The catfish didn't miss the current. They'd never known it. They lapped the pond all day like pace cars. At feeding time, they thrashed for their share of pellets....
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...to young seedlings by wild hogs and the destructive effects of naval stores production. A manageable fire in a regularly burned longleaf area, Blackwater River State Forest, Milton, Florida. Photograph...
My Grandmother's Plot in the Family Cemetery
...Daughter or pitied Sister, one of those who never married. Published in Late Wife (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005). Published: 26 October 2009 © 2009 Claudia Emerson...
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...
Runaway
...Around it without stump or stumble. I left The door slightly open; no draft lives in Louisiana's summer. And how I could not move so quickly and away When twenty...
Horton newspaper
Horton Commercial, reprinted in Topeka Plaindealer. "Lynching Dead Negroes." January 31, 1902. "Had this lynching of a dead Negro occurred in Louisiana or Texas, it would be termed 'another Democratic...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
Review The Ohio River figures prominently in what are arguably the three most significant novels of American slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Toni Morrison's Beloved both feature...
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic Part 2: Greeson explores how early national writers contrast the “Plantation South” with the nascent republican US Part 3: Greeson explores...
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...