Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...asks that we consider the space of the plantation not only as a physical landscape of endless rows of cotton stalks but also as spaces constructed by and in service...
When the Border Crossed Me
...agriculture. The borderlands overtook me personally and professionally. I cannot escape their meaning—not just down at the southern line below the United States, but the little borders everywhere in our...
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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...
Jarvis Branch, North Carolina
Chris Carter’s home being moved out of the right-of-way of I-26, Jarvis Branch, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Chris Carter’s house being moved to new location off of...
Mars Hill, North Carolina
New Waffle House NC 213 in Mars Hill, Mars Hill, NC, 2004. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Signage on NC 213 in Mars Hill, Mars Hill NC, 2004. Photo courtesy...
Buckner Gap, North Carolina
Poplar tree, Buckner Gap, NC, 1994. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Remains of the house rumored to have been the site of an illegal liquor distilling operation, near Buckner Gap,...