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A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

From A Field Guide to Etowah County

Bluets, larkspur, common violets in the jimson and queen-anne's-lace, tangles of boxwood and honeysuckle and smilax in hydrangea and pine, thick from which Spring Azures drift, among the first to...

Packin' Four Corner Nabs

...afraid to land case he might get landed on Sadie is so big to me she’s the midnight blue of sky just swings and swings with fear of God human...

Putting up Beans

...burners gassed up blue, I filled four steel washtubs with seventy pint jars each-- forty if they were quart sized Masons. The barn itself layered in rafters for hanging sticks...

Geography

...from the blues I don’t understand, I wade in water shallow enough to cross. On the bank at the other side, I look back at him as if across the...

Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]

...familiar format of a pieced block. Originally made from silk and tie-dyed to create decorative patterns in red or blue, bandannas were among textiles imported from India in the eighteenth...

Race

...when he traveled without his white wife to visit his siblings — now in New York, now in Harlem, USA — just as pale-skinned, as straight-haired, as blue-eyed as Paul,...

Black. Queer. Southern. Women.

...Artist Award. A self-employed touring artist since 1998, Bridgforth has received support from Creative Capital, the MAP Fund, and the National Performance Network. Bridgforth's publications include love conjure/blues (Washington, DC:...

The Bulletin—April 3, 2013

...of racial and ethnic minorities; Middle Atlanta is split along ethnic and ideological lines; while North Side voters are more conservative and are generally white. The blog "Blogging While Blue: News...

The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills

...Blue Society for Human-Animal Conflict Resolution concluded the evening's presentations. As a professional tracker, Paglieri emphasized the concept of "just balance," which weighs human and animal needs as equally important...