Lyrics to Pretty Saro
As sung by Cas Wallin, Madison County, North Carolina When I first come to this country in eighteen and forty nine I saw many fair lovers, but I never saw...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...Tuscaloosa sleeps in the water sucks gore from his lungs strips the green crucifix roars the gumbo scream Tuscaloosa Tuscaloosa Tuscaloosa Trane's Alabama a Creole agony blood slung through air...
At Sun Ra's Grave
...Christ, rasied from shards now glows, its angle an aftermath. But the rush, the wind's still here. Wet night air spreads name from name, pulling the sheets from his grip,...
Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road
...that silence would be lost, would be written over leaving the road a by-way, a dead end with a plaque where people hold photographs to the air so they can...
Prayer of the Backhanded
...holding nothing tightly Against me and not wrapped In leather, eliminated the air Between itself and my cheek. Make full this dimpled cheek Unworthy of its unfisted print And forgive...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...of sheltering raiders who had attacked an Anglo ranch, the strike force searched the village. Upon the discovery of two firearms and a pair of boots similar to ones reported...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...full projects Send submissions and direct all inquiries to: Series editor Eric Solomon (seditor@emory.edu) Top, Opening title sequence from television documentary "The Rejected." Originally aired by KQED, San Francisco, California,...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...was a distinct sense of anxiety in the air. Even with the presence of Sheriff's deputies inside and outside the church, speakers noted that shots might ring out out at...
The Bulletin—April 24, 2013
...half-mile radius of the blast. The cause of the blast is still unknown. The plant, which is owned by Adair Inc.'s West Fertilizer Company, produced anhydrous ammonia (a liquid crop...
The Bulletin—May 8, 2013
...the House. Former Congressman Sanford, despite causing a great scandal in 2009 by covering up a romantic affair in Argentina with a story about hiking the Appalachian Trail, ran against...