Zircon
...be a token from the planet's fiery birth. For zircons are almost as old as earth's creation in the conflagration from debris that formed the galaxies of suns. This tiny...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...granddaughters walk playfully ahead on a sunny, tree-lined neighborhood street. A middle-aged man in glasses helps a girl with puff sleeves and a brightly patterned dress up to a drinking...
Substantiation
...Farm where guards rifle from the woods. A change at the Eavesdrop Inn then he's bent picking cotton in a field. Come sundown, he hobos Sumner way and squats at...
#598, Common Meter
Sung to tune of Cleansing Fountain in B.F. White Sacred Harp Cooper Revision (382) 1) There is a house not made with hands Eternal and on high: ...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...piece pays homage to Sun Ra, the jazz musician who claimed Saturn as his planet of origin and Birmingham as the site of his “arrival,” and so images the piano...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
Introduction Filmed during the 1990s and released on PBS in 2000, Goin’ to Chicago is a sixty minute film about the largest internal movement of people in United States history—the...
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...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...the "South." Top, "Walk by bayshore, Bayfront Park," Miami, Florida. Postcard published by Standard Drug and Sundry Co. Photograph by G. W. Romer. Courtesy of Florida Memory, State Library &...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...the hikers, John Yoshida had no intention of coming back. Some time after noon on Sunday, January 17, he slipped past the barbed wire fence encircling the Jerome camp. Though...
Transcript: "Lucy Mae Blues" by Cecil Barfield
...guitar] [0.00–0.14] That Sunday woman, she bring me the news That Monday woman, boys, I’m telling you Better not let my good gal catch you here Ain’t no telling, man,...