Artist Repertoire Index
...Meat Skin Barfield, Cecil aka William Robertson (1976, 1977, 1980, 1981) Ain’t Nobody’s Fool Baby, Please Don’t Go Big Legged Woman The Blue of the Mojo Hand Bottle Up and...
Darkly
...in the air where they held a gun on Willie Edwards and told him he could jump. How you'd ask me — Why? so simple it won't tell a thing...
At Liberty (1964)
...and cedar, all its innumerable wings, and tomorrow he will be gone from the lumber-yards and the farmhouse windows that semaphore like televisions and the vacant hands of Herbert Lee...
Stones and Shadows
1. Visiting the Stone The air in the car is thick and still. My father makes a right turn through the cemetery gates, giving me a significant look. I don't...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...eds. Emily Abel and Margaret K. Nelson (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990), 40. Historically, Appalachian women had tended to the broken bodies of miners and industrial workers,...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...or the city has sprawled over land that used to be rural. Frequently people tell me something like, "My grandmother kept chickens. I used to love to gather the eggs."...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
Essay Al Clayton, Will Campbell, 1975. The Reverend Will D. Campbell, a "renegade" Baptist preacher whose unorthodox ministry to a far-flung parish of unchurched souls was the signifying hallmark of...
Race
...the story ends: ivory siblings who would not see their brother without their telltale spouses. What a strange thing is "race," and family, stranger still. Here a poem tells a...
Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley
Jim Bunkley interview. Recorded in Geneva, Georgia, 1969. Bunkley discusses his life, music, and brief work in a medicine show in Southwest Georgia. Courtesy of George Mitchell and Fat Possum...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...Send submissions and direct all inquiries to: Series editor Eric Solomon (seditor@emory.edu) Top, Opening title sequence from television documentary "The Rejected." Originally aired by KQED, San Francisco, California, September 11,...