Buckner Gap, North Carolina
Poplar tree, Buckner Gap, NC, 1994. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Remains of the house rumored to have been the site of an illegal liquor distilling operation, near Buckner Gap,...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...with the distinctive New Orleans hiphop sound. Back at home, neighborhoods and local social aid and pleasure clubs hosted block parties and second lines featuring the dynamic sounds and dances...
Seneca Quarry
...the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, 1790–1992. The ARC Identifier is 3025595, MLR Number A1 18. In all of my research, the 1823 federal...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...alone I thought it might be the proverbial train wreck of colliding stereotypes, but like most passersby of an accident I had to stare at least a little. A writer...
Work
...changing headings on library cards, and cleaning houses, to working as a chair-side dental assistant, a secretary in an occupational therapy unit, and a counselor to prisoners in a minimum-security...
Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
...New Orleans musicians have drawn on their experiences of living in a flood plain Part 4: Spitzer explores the cultural importance of the city’s musical and building arts, featuring an interview...
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic
...of the national self into its ‘southern other’” Part 5: Greeson discusses the focus of national writers on the internal “Plantation South” About Jennifer Rae Greeson received her PhD in American...
Remembering Jake Adam York (1972–2012)
...beauty and technical skill of his poems is a profound intervention into our ongoing conversations about race and social justice. His body of work represents a bold and necessary challenge...
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...
The Morning with Many Tongues
Readings Sean Hill reads the poem "Just as Sure." Poem text. Sean Hill reads the poem "Nigger Street 1937." Poem text. Sean Hill reads the poem "The State House Aflame 1833." Poem text....