A Mess of Poke
...with us in the northeast Georgia mountains when I was in my early teens. She would take a grocery sack on her walks along the country roads near our house...
Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces
...2017. Courtesy of OER Commons. Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Open Educational Resource (OER) is the name given by proponents of open access to educational material—including course content, assignments,...
Prayer of the Backhanded
...arm Like an angel's invisible wing May fly backward in fury Whether or not his son stands near. Help me hold in place my blazing jaw As I think to...
Buckner Gap, North Carolina
...NC, 1995. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Drilling blast holes, Buckner Gap, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Blast supervisor inspecting recent explosion, Buckner Gap, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy...
Elegy for the Native Guards
...their legacy? All the grave markers, all the crude headstones— water—lost. Now fish dart among their bones, and we listen for what the waves intone. Only the fort remains, near...
California Creek, North Carolina
NCDOT boundary marker, California Creek, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Drill rig, California Creek, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. NCDOT geologist Jody Kuhne identifying springs in...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...by kin and community. Addie Bundren's body is both nearly lost in a river and consumed in a fire deliberately set by her own son, Darl; two of her other...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...her husband’s lower arm, a flaw in the processing near his elbow suggests a hole made by a bullet. In “Kingfisher’s Wing,” a stunning image of Larry’s legs, butt, and...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...of time and place. Every lynching or near-lynching played out and was responded to in a slightly different way, depending on the circumstances, the people involved, and the local and...
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...And he is right that the issue of school desegregation efforts after the 1964 Civil Rights Act is a near perfect terrain for fully understanding the rifts in the old civil...