CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...a public health series covering the pandemic: https://southernspaces.org/2022/covid-19-lessons-ignorance/. Far too much had to be cobbled together on the fly in early 2020 largely because of prior organizational neglect. And far...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...to Use Covid-19 Relief Funds to Build Prisons," CNN, October 1, 2021, https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/01/politics/alabama-covid-relief-prison-bills-signed-governor-kay-ivey/index.html. Despite the uneven distribution of aid, many people, specifically children and elders, moved above the poverty line...
Bricking the Church
Poem Robert Morgan reads his poem "Bricking the Church," 2014. Bricking the Church At the foot of Meetinghouse Hill where once the white chapel pointed among junipers and pulled a...
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Packin' Four Corner Nabs
...butter from packin’ four corner nabs even after the shower down spot a teamster card on the visor Published in Off-Season City Pipe: Work (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2005)....
Off-Season
...I am. Fieldworker, or framer, I only showed you what you said I couldn’t be. Published in Off Season City Pipe: Work (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2005). Published: 14...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...folkies found Avalon, drove to Mississippi, and asked at a general store, "Have you heard of a musician named John Hurt?" "Third road, turn right, house on your left, up...
Runaway
Barefoot in the actual dark, I packed a paper bag And found the way out of my lover's house. I had only the glass coffee table as obstacle; I slipped...
Jarvis Branch, North Carolina
Chris Carter’s home being moved out of the right-of-way of I-26, Jarvis Branch, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Chris Carter’s house being moved to new location off of...