Packin' Four Corner Nabs
...so I look like a monkey when I look in mirrors big muscular arms and back on a skinny little frame kinda wiry, funny, even to me the biceps aren’t...
Consolation
If we could take them back, swinging by the Little Kitchen's shadow on Jefferson Street and waving them in as they were, Livingston, Alexander, Britt, and York, piling together on...
My Grandmother's Plot in the Family Cemetery
...widow to no one's surprise, and she buried him close beside the one whose sons clung to her at the funeral tighter than her own children. But little of that...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...Pallet on Your Floor," "Casey Jones," "Creole Belle" — and return to Mississippi and die. He was a little man, but cathedrals lit up in his hands. When Segovia heard...
Darkly
...condemn is easy, you said, to condemn is to turn away where no one will ever understand. So, I go back, downtown, to Jefferson Street, though their haven, their Little...
Like Father
...band binds the morning paper. My father's embrace tightens. Grits Stiffen. I hug back Like a little boy, gripping To prove his handshake. Daddy squeezes me close, But I cannot...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
Review Historians Ethan J. Kytle and Blain Roberts, professors at California State University, Fresno, have produced a brilliantly written and thoroughly engaging place-based exploration of competing narratives of racial enslavement....
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
Video and Essay https://player.vimeo.com/video/269927353?byline=0&portrait=0 Ryan Gainey with cut flowers, Decatur, Georgia, ca. 1993. Photograph by David Schilling. Ryan Gainey (1944–2016) grew up in the Sandhills of South Carolina in the...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...of Slavery: Labor, Capital, and World Economy (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2003). Just as abolitionists understood themselves within a worldwide network in opposition to bondage, slaveholders envisioned their...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...about material I had been analyzing for years. SOLOMON: Can you tell us a little bit about how the Queer Miami exhibit was organized? Three participants riding in a car...