The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron
...poet makes sounds like prayer, but the heron is merely annoyed, stepping into the air and pulling with broad wings. The poet carefully records a sacred text, but the heron...
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy Question and Answer Wallace-Sanders responds to questions about the photographs she uses, the proposed Mammy Memorial Institute, the political responses...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...Gay Content Link says, "If you read only one book of poetry this year, The Dirt She Ate should be it." Recently Pratt served as the Jane Watson Irwin Chair...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...a walking cane long before he needed one for support. He once crawled through an airport security checkpoint on his hands and knees after the attendant insisted on x-raying his...
Keep Your Eye upon the Scale
Keep Your Eye upon the Scale Keep Your Eye upon the Scale, 2015. Video by Tom Hansell, Patricia Beaver, and Angela Wiley. Recording Exchange in Wales and Appalachia In 1974,...
Topeka newspapers
...putting on such "airs," and proceeded to adopt the regulation Dixie method for teaching the negro his place.... Published: 6 September 2007 © 2007 Brent M.S. Campney and Southern Spaces...
Substantiation
...pair has woven strips of Look Bryant spreads throughout the woods. In twenty years no one's come. He opens a shotgun on the starlings' calls each morning and they spray...
Ellipsis
...their hair. Distant white relatives fought for the railroad stock when he died, and they won. They also got the house. You can smell the funk Of the haints in...
Congregation
...Natasha Trethewey is a professor of English and the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at Emory University. Her first collection, Domestic Work, won the 1999 Cave Canem prize, a 2001...
The Bulletin—October 18, 2012
...in Appalachia marked the anniverary by highlighting legislative efforts with the potential to undermine the law and questioning its fair application. The organization Appalachian Voices published a report today titled...