CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...a public health series covering the pandemic: https://southernspaces.org/2022/covid-19-lessons-ignorance/. Far too much had to be cobbled together on the fly in early 2020 largely because of prior organizational neglect. And far...
Bodies and Souls
...located in Coahoma County, Mississippi. Created by Wikimedia Commons user Arkyan. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 3.0. After making Waking in Mississippi, I moved to Boston where I spent four years...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...was Raymond Andrews? I wanted to know because I was a lover of literature from and about Georgia, but also because I am from Madison, Georgia, and I knew of...
Bricking the Church
Poem Robert Morgan reads his poem "Bricking the Church," 2014. Bricking the Church At the foot of Meetinghouse Hill where once the white chapel pointed among junipers and pulled a...
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Packin' Four Corner Nabs
...butter from packin’ four corner nabs even after the shower down spot a teamster card on the visor Published in Off-Season City Pipe: Work (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2005)....
Off-Season
...I am. Fieldworker, or framer, I only showed you what you said I couldn’t be. Published in Off Season City Pipe: Work (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2005). Published: 14...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...folkies found Avalon, drove to Mississippi, and asked at a general store, "Have you heard of a musician named John Hurt?" "Third road, turn right, house on your left, up...
Runaway
Barefoot in the actual dark, I packed a paper bag And found the way out of my lover's house. I had only the glass coffee table as obstacle; I slipped...