Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...water climb higher than before, and in the spring the people of the town visit mounds filled with bones. They buy feathers and skin painted bright colors, or whistles drilled...
At Sun Ra's Grave
...broken mouth. A sleep curls there till the righteous sounds emerge. Published in A Murmuration of Starlings (2008). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 1 April...
I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees
...suppurating in secret weeds and the flies, who are marvelous because their appetite is our revulsion. Let the laborers go on. Right now I wish I could admire the trees...
Six Yellow Stanzas
1. Didn't know what to do at the Boule Ball, so I put on a Mardi Gras mask of a smile and watched those Creoles second-line, light yellow faces, bright...
Anniversary
...and let this memory be a kind of no, polished now with all its bright and all its dark, and maybe the rain will fall like the water of this...
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
Presentation Part One Black women who influenced Johnson's thinking about literature, folklore, the arts, and "quare theory" while growing up in western North Carolina and when attending UNC–Chapel Hill (5:27)....
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsa.8a40003. S. Wright Kennedy, doctoral candidate in the history department at Rice University, presents four different examples of how HGIS and spatial...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/pictures/item/94513504/. Right, Major General Andrew Jackson, Philadelphia, ca. 1820. Portrait by Thomas Sully, engraving by James B. Longacre. Courtesy of the Library...
And the Prize Goes to...
...scholarly writing. Students worked with Allison Wright—who sifts through some nine thousand online submissions each year as the managing editor for Virginia Quarterly Review—to develop an early-semester workshop on strategies and...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
Review The Ohio River figures prominently in what are arguably the three most significant novels of American slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Toni Morrison's Beloved both feature...