Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19
...urban landscape, e.g. occupancy of office buildings; closure of retail stores; restructuring of restaurants and pedestrian spaces? How are the over one million lives lost to Covid in the United...
An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim
Readings Rodney Jones reads the poem "Failed Memory Exercise." Poem text. Rodney Jones reads the poem "I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees." Poem text. Rodney Jones reads the poem "Homage To...
The Colonialist's Gaze
Presentation Closer Reading: Three Images from the Presentation Panorama of Armstrong standing at the summit of Signal Hill. Image courtesy of Lanny Thompson, 2017. Standing at the summit of Signal...
Place, Time, and Memory
...College of Art and Design. An enormously productive and prolific artist, Christenberry's work is widely exhibited and collected by major museums and galleries in the United States and in Europe....
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Alexander discusses growing up in NYC and Washington DC, DC as Upsouth, identifications with Blackness and southernness Part 3: Alexander discusses southernness and urban space, and...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...gross indecency" between men. In the United States, sodomy laws were on the books in every state. By Percy's death in 1942, these laws were still in place but a...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...of the Insane in the United States and Canada, vol. 1 (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1916). Courtesy of Internet Archives and Yale University. Gonaver's goal is to show...
Image Credits
...BY 2.0. Change Bayard Rustin, October 17, 2010. Drawing by Flickr user Topher McCullogh. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0. Love Burning Man, Corpus Christi. Mixed-media painting by Eric Solomon....
Just as Sure
...Couldn't deny they shared faces. We buried Daddy in '53. They finished the dam, backed up the Oconee that year to make power. They made a lake, changed the town....
Congregation
...use for these words, this easy parsing. This time he tells me he's changed his name: Jo-ell instead of Joel— name of the man who took our mother's life— his...