Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...putting together a new record (LP) collection and am listening to "Bob Dylan: Travelin' Thru," which is vol. 15 of the Bootleg Series, with Dylan and Johnny Cash. Hard to...
Audio Transcript
"It Will Be Alright" by John P. Kee and The New Life Community Choir. From Wait on Him (1989). [Choir] ♪ It will be alright! ♪ [Kee] ♪ It...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
Interview Part 2: Morgan reads “Backwater” and discusses his history of coming to terms with his origins Part 3: Morgan reads “Heaven” and discusses the place of nostalgia in his poetry Part...
An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim
...Mississippi John Hurt." Poem text. Rodney Jones reads the poem "Sweep." Poem text. In this interview at the 2009 Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference in Chicago, Illinois, Rodney...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...envision. John Hatch, first director of the North Bolivar County Food Cooperative, standing with a co-op member on the NBCFC farm, North Bolivar County, Mississippi, 1968. Photograph by Dr. Doris...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...has paved over the evidence. “Stony the Road We Trod” & “350,000” The first section of Bey’s Elegy, “Stony the Road We Trod,” (a lyric from James Weldon Johnson’s “Lift...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...facilitate destruction of the ecological base and subsistence practices of Appalachian agrarians. Title map of the coal field of the great Kanawha Valley, West Virginia, 1867. Map by John S....
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
Photo Essay Map of Memphis Neighborhoods (Base Map Data: US Census Bureau) Photographer's Statement While I didn't seek out hand-painted signs, I noticed their emergence as a pattern in my...