Geography
Geography Natasha Trethewey reads her poem "Geography," 2010. Poem text. About the Poet Natasha Trethewey is a professor of English and the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at...
Zircon
...Hall of Fame in 2010. Born on October 3, 1944 in Hendersonville, North Carolina, he has taught since 1971 at Cornell University, where he is Kappa Alpha Professor of English....
Bricking the Church
...Hall of Fame in 2010. Born on October 3, 1944 in Hendersonville, North Carolina, he has taught since 1971 at Cornell University, where he is Kappa Alpha Professor of English....
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...is Kappa Alpha Professor of English. In 2010 a special issue of Southern Quarterly, edited by Jesse Graves, was devoted to essays about his work. About the Interviewer Emma Lirette,...
Making History
...You have to help me, he says. Cuba is burning. I reach into his arm. I pull out spoon after spoon after spoon. Published in I Was the Jukebox...
Geography
...of blackberry, the coins flattened on the tracks. We can’t help it— already, we’re leaning too hard toward metaphor: my father searching for the railroad switch. It was here, right...
The Gospel Pool, Short Meter, 444t
Beside the gospel pool, Appointed for the poor, From time to time my helpless soul Has waited for a cure. The hill of Zion yields A thousand sacred sweets, Before...
Accidents Happen with Clockwork Regularity
...the sink, waiting for the unfortunate accidents that punctuate the day and night and all the hours and minutes within, that help you tell time. Published in The Boatloads...
Emporia newspapers
...and fell back to the pillow but almost immediately regained consciousness and again cried out for help. Some of the neighbors had been arroused [sic] by the first outcry and...
Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road
...the Freedom Riders they've chased from Anniston, still smoked out and choking on the grass. So much else is gone — the grocery where the driver ran "for help," the...