Congregation
...table and chairs etched with rust, the dresser laced with mold. Four years gone she's still rebuilding the shed out back and sorting through boxes in the kitchen- a lifetime...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Roll Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art (Third World, 2002), and These Hands I Know: Writing About the African American...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...Gulf South borderlands in particular found evidence for this portrayal in the writings of early French, Spanish, and Anglo observers who emphasized the "mental incapacity" and "backwardness" of the region's...
Tracing the Arctic Regions: Mapping 19th Century Photographs of Greenland
...representation of extreme landscapes—such as alpine and arctic regions—and the political forces that shape and contest them over time. To date, his published writing explores these themes within the history...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...here too, the repeating processes of geological time that leave waves in the rock and hollow out the caves and the layered scratches and writings left behind by people marking...
No Place
...Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991 (1991), S/HE (1995), Walking Back Up Depot Street (1999), and The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems (2003). Pratt's lecture "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do...
1108 Dynamite Hill
Video https://player.vimeo.com/video/652096254?h=527be50265& Essay Jeff Drew, born in 1951, is a lifelong resident of Birmingham, Alabama's North Smithfield neighborhood. In 2013, following the fiftieth anniversary commemoration of the Birmingham campaign of...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...One of the most significant reports on African forms in Lowcountry religious cultures is the Georgia Writers' Project, Savannah Unit, Drums and Shadows: Survival Studies Among the Georgia Coastal Negroes, (Spartanburg,...
New Shades o'Death Creek
...the remains of her family's pyre. Emily Satterwhite, Aerial view of mountaintop removal site, Southern West Virginia, 2005. About the Author Appalachian native Denise Giardina writes historical fiction that explores...
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?
...writer, and teacher. He received an MA in English from South Dakota State University in 1991, and his PhD from the University of Oklahoma in 1995. He is the author...