Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...role in the Free Young Men's Benevolent Association, later known as the Colored Union Benevolent Association, which in 1870 established Mt. Pleasant Plains Cemetery (now the site of Walter Pierce...
The Heavenly Port, Common Meter, 378t
On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand, And cast a wishful eye…… From White, B.F. The Sacred Harp Revised Cooper edition, Samson, Alabama: Sacred Harp Book Co., 2006. Published: 17...
The Gospel Pool, Short Meter, 444t
...we reach the heav'nly fields Or walk the golden streets. From White, B.F. The Sacred Harp Revised Cooper edition, Samson, Alabama: Sacred Harp Book Co., 2006. Published: 17 August 2010...
Congregation
...sign my name in the book, write R0470—his number— and agree to a search, I stand as if I would make a snow angel in the air, and the woman...
Ars Poetica #100: I Believe
...shell that snaps, emptying the proverbial pocketbook. Poetry is what you find in the dirt in the corner, overhear on the bus, God in the details, then only way to...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...world, to work for the treasure in heaven. So I sat waiting for Mama in the car, reading the Bible, opening the book of Revelations, longing for the place after...
Margaret Walker's "Micah" (1970)
...they shall not be remembered in the Book of Life. Micah was a man. Published in Prophet's for a New Day Published: 11 March 2008 © 2008 Southern Spaces...
Georgia Postcard
...kudzu, the mammoth dogwoods, the Christmas tree farm. Published in Antebellum Dream Book (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2001). Published: 10 December 2009 © 2009 Elizabeth Alexander and Southern Spaces ...
Letter: Blues
...slate-branched tree sway from the roots — I've got to buy some proper, winter boots. So many boxes! Crates and crates of books. I must get oil soap, bleach, picture...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...legislated and upheld, allowing laws like Mississippi's HB 1523 to remain on the books. At least for now. Given the shifted balance of the Supreme Court, it is my hope...