A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama Jake Adam York reads the poem "Gone With the Wind." Jake Adam York reads the poem "At Cornwall Furnace." Jake Adam York reads the...
Watching the Surface for a Sign
Readings Patrick Phillips reads "Brass Knuckles." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads "The Chimney." Poem text. Patrick Phillips reads "The Flood." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads "Heaven." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads an excerpt...
An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim
...Jean Stein Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Jones is a professor and distinguished scholar at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. In 2009, he will...
Naming Each Place
Readings Jericho Brown reads the poem "Like Father." Poem text Jericho Brown reads "Prayer of the Backhanded." Poem text Jericho Brown reads the poem "Scarecrow." Poem text Jericho Brown reads...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
Reading John Lane reads the poem "Returning Home, Saxon Mills." Poem text. About the Author John Lane teaches environmental studies at Wofford College where he also directs the Goodall Center for...
In the Queen City: A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library
A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library Part 2: York reads from “At Liberty (1961),” “At Liberty (1964),” and “Substantiation” Part 3: York reads from “At Sun Ra’s Grave” and...
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
...Postcard” Part 7: Alexander reads and discusses “The Dirt Eaters” and “Ars Poetica #100: I Believe” Text of Poems Referenced "Ellipsis," "Letter: Blues," "Frank Willis," "Talk Radio, D.C.," "Race," Phillip Levine's...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...was inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame in 2010. Born in Hendersonville, North Carolina, October 3, 1944, he has taught since 1971 at Cornell University, where he...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...Derby. Courtesy of University of North Carolina Press. After five years of operation, the NBCFC began a decline in the 1970s due to leadership infighting, disagreements, and the loss of...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Jesse Peel on the Geography of Atlanta's LGBT Community
...health programs for people with HIV and their friends, families, and caregivers. In this interview, Dr. Peel discusses his life as a gay man in Nashville, Tennessee, his move to...