Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...Richmond, Virginia, 2010. In the exhibition’s main hall, a large map of the world is colored in bright post-it notes mostly by children who have written their places of origin....
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...with references to local people and places. As Chuck Brown, the guitarist and bandleader (who with his band The Soul Searchers pioneered the genre in the 1970s), observed, "It's easy,...
Southern Labor Studies Association Collaboration
...studies offerings and presenting significant new scholarship. We encourage scholars to submit panels that engage with ideas of space and place. Below is the SLSA's call for panels. The Many...
Insistent Traces
Readings https://vimeo.com/134755182 Claudia Emerson reads the untitled opening from Pinion: An Elegy. View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134755765 Claudia Emerson reads the poem "Rent." View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134756419 Claudia Emerson...
When the Border Crossed Me
...freedom to stay in place and their need to leave home to keep their farm alive. I was a beginning farmer hiring seasoned agriculturalists from another country to help make...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
Video https://vimeo.com/126188419 Poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers presents her poem "Tuscaloosa: Riversong," July 29, 2005, beside the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Poem text. Part 2: Jeffers examines the river...
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama Jake Adam York reads the poem "Gone With the Wind." Jake Adam York reads the poem "At Cornwall Furnace." Jake Adam York reads the...
Theories of Time and Space
Video Theories of Time and Space You can get there from here, though there’s no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you’ve never been. Try this: head south...
Anniversary
Readings Jake Adam York reads the poem "Anniversary." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Consolation." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Darkly." Poem text. Jake Adam...
In the Queen City: A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library
A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library Part 2: York reads from “At Liberty (1961),” “At Liberty (1964),” and “Substantiation” Part 3: York reads from “At Sun Ra’s Grave” and...