Zircon
Poem Zircon When my great-uncles dug for zircons on the mountainside and on the pasture hill a hundred years ago they'd no idea the little crystal bit they sought would...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
Review Sarah Mayorga-Gallo's Behind the White Picket Fence explores how race, class, and ethnicity shape daily life and power sharing in "Creekridge Park," a pseudonymous multiethnic neighborhood located in Durham, North Carolina. In the early...
The Bulletin—July 2, 2013
...dose of pentobarbital and died at 6:37 p.m. on June 26, 2013. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned her conviction in 2001, but McCarthy lost during a retrial in...
The Bulletin—September 21, 2012
...sea bass and red snapper are costing Southeast and Gulf Coast states nearly one hundred million dollars in combined losses resulting from fewer fishing trips for those species. The past...
Remnants of Flannery
...It will be lost on few that "lavender" has long been associated with homosexuality. The so-called "lavender scare" of the 1950s would have been on people's minds upon the novel's...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
Interview with Sandra Beasley Part 2: Jake Adam York & Sandra Beasley discuss traveling and engaging with the “culinary South,” “traditional” cuisine, and more Part 3: Jake Adam York & Sandra Beasley...
Hillbilly Records, Zulu Yodels, and the Sounds of a Global South
Presentation Part 2: Nunn discusses how Rodgers’ music was appropriated and recontextualized in South Africa and Kenya in the 1930’s and 1940’s Part 3: Erich Nunn, Selected questions and answers About the...
Anniversary
Readings Jake Adam York reads the poem "Anniversary." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Consolation." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Darkly." Poem text. Jake Adam...
New Shades o'Death Creek
...her head. "They destroyed the groundwater down below, of course, and the people with wells lost those. And the dust — just be glad you weren't here. White silica dust....
Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey
Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Trethewey discusses “Signs, Oakvale, Missisippi, 1941” and “Flounder” as well as landscapes in Gulfport and New Orleans Part 3: Trethewey discusses “Monument,” “Elegy for the Native...