Inside Poor Monkey's
Introduction Poor Monkey's sits in a cotton field in Bolivar County, west of the town of Merigold on the Hiter farm, land worked by members of the same family for...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...and celebrate the southern writer’s capacity to resist unexamined norms that allow any system of dominance to roll on unchallenged. These resistant literatures, with greater impact than southern literary history...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...“I myself am from Texas,” writes a child, “though my mother was from Mexico, and my grandmother from the Yucatán, I am proud to be third generation to travel great...
2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading
...of Paula Vitaris in the Creative Writing Program, and especially the planning and organization carried out singlehandedly by the remarkable Sarita Alami to whom I owe the greatest of debts....
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...ideas and activism. Daniel Immerwahr's How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (2019) forever alters readers' perception of the national map, outlining the extent and...
Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley
...was in the rough then. I had a great big ole white cowboy hat. Mitchell: Oh yeah? Jim Bunkley: And I got up there, would get up on the stage...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...ended with promises for bigger, better, and more.3cyclops, "Celebration . . . Very Gay," Great Speckled Bird, July 5, 1971, 2. Bill went home to see himself on the evening...
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together? Part 2: Womack analyzes Posey’s representation of the vexed relationships between Creeks and Freedmen in the Creek Confederacy...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...the other way to west, to wilderness, to where the future waits to open out its shining promise, destiny. Backwater meant new water then, where greatness waited, tilted toward the...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...inches. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Gift of Gerald B. Smith with additional funds given at "One Great Night in November, 2002" in honor of Harvey Padewer. Radcliffe Bailey,...