Birdhouses
...seen the purple martin house and gourd tree there together, they seemed on this day desperately vacant. Meditations on home. How else to explain the accumulation of nearly thirty photographs...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
Essay In early 1943, John Yoshida escaped from the American concentration camp at Jerome, Arkansas.1This essay is adapted from John Howard, Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...of the city's decline. Iron manufacturing, the core of the city's late nineteenth and early twentieth century industry, has long since waned. In 1999, the US Army closed its training...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...is barely decipherable, his stories are full of crude reference to whores and excrement, and his disdain for his betters is clearly his main objective. In the opening conversation of...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...sky is, how distant the family, but of winged seeds blown from a milkweed field in the opalescent smokes of early winter ascending toward heaven's blue, each self orchestrated in...
Off-Season
FOR FIELDWORKERS AND FARMERS LIKE ME Early, on grayest morning, when we nettled deep in between rows, tobacco and sweet potato, both two seasons away from planting, you reasoned I...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...200 shots fired, nearly half entered the body of the black man," reported the Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal. "The remainder tore to shreds the woodland scenery, arranged for the presentation of...
The Same Language: A Memoir by Ben Duncan
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Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...one hundred striking kids into "the March of the Mill Children," from Philadelphia to President Theodore Roosevelt's summer home on Long Island. By the early twentieth century, Mother Jones was...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...The Art of the Unritual in the Greater Caribbean in its early formulation. Highly recommended for ecocritical scholars. Finally, because drama does not get its readerly due and most of...