Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...song or on the relationship of a genre to a geographical area. Instead, he traces the diverse repertoires of musicians and varied tastes of southern fans in order to write...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...those markings on all the front doors around here," writes New Orleans Times Picayune columnist Chris Rose, "posting notice of who was spared and who was not."2Rose, Chris. "Badges of...
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
...their newsletter, Skip Two Periods, to "Discovering Our Heritage." The writer, "B. F.," wrote about finding her heritage at the Lesbian Herstory Archives in Brooklyn, in Jonathan Ned Katz's book...
Three AM and the Stars Were Out
...not I'll be arriving too late, what's to be done best done with rifle or shotgun, so make driving the good part, turn off my radio, let the dark close...
#209, Long Meter
...our best spices flow abroad To entertain our Saviour God; And faith and love and joy appear, And every grace be active here. From Lloyd, Benjamin,...
Fort Scott newspapers
...the outgrowth of the purest and best qualities of human nature. This collection might well be compared to the Garden of Eden in its combination of excellences and like the...
Stones and Shadows
...the image in relief, old man with scythe, and the quotation: "Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be." Impossible, grand. The earth is beneath us. The...
Six Yellow Stanzas
...among these creamy freesia women - they all are. They let some men be dark, like the one they call Dark Gable, who could talk that talk the best. The...
Frank Willis
...ate a rat. The summer I was eleven Water- gate was something I watched with my grandmother on TV like the best soap opera but also something she would have...
Ellipsis
...the walls: Mildew, semen, camphor, Oft-handled bills, coin metal, Cornbread breath that whispers and swallows and breathes. One day, as in the best bodice-rippers, the house burned down to the...