Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...a frequent guest blogger on The Best American Poetry, and one of his poems, "The Truth About the Present," was recently featured on The Academy of American Poets' Poets.org site....
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
Photo Essay Map of Memphis Neighborhoods (Base Map Data: US Census Bureau) Photographer's Statement While I didn't seek out hand-painted signs, I noticed their emergence as a pattern in my...
Recording Musical History: An Interview with Lance Ledbetter of Dust-to-Digital Records
Interview...
Gold Records in Deep Space
The more that traces of American roots music are turned into prized relics, the more lifeless the music becomes. Only by acknowledging roots music's ephemeral and fragile qualities do its...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...definitive account of these protests.1Raymond Arsenault, Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, Pivotal Moments in American History. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Ninety miles southwest of...
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...
Watching the Surface for a Sign
...University of Georgia Press in 2008. His poems have appeared in many magazines, including Poetry, Ploughshares, and The American Poetry Review, and his honors include fellowships from the National Endowment...
Anniversary
Early, the city's empty, almost soundless, still. The air has a photograph's grain, a mist that's still deciding whether to rise or fall, and again, we're walking down Dexter, drawn...
Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley
...did you start playing guitar? Jim Bunkley: I came up, my brothers had one, and me and my sister used to get up on a chair because we couldn’t hold...
Artist Repertoire Index
...Gal Blues Come From Texas Jack of Diamonds Good Morning, Lil School Girl Hard Luck Blues The Howling Wolf Oh, Red Rocking Chair Blues Segregation Blues So Sweet Them Greasy...