Prayer of the Backhanded
...holding nothing tightly Against me and not wrapped In leather, eliminated the air Between itself and my cheek. Make full this dimpled cheek Unworthy of its unfisted print And forgive...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...of sheltering raiders who had attacked an Anglo ranch, the strike force searched the village. Upon the discovery of two firearms and a pair of boots similar to ones reported...
The Bulletin—April 24, 2013
...half-mile radius of the blast. The cause of the blast is still unknown. The plant, which is owned by Adair Inc.'s West Fertilizer Company, produced anhydrous ammonia (a liquid crop...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Chip Simone on Atlanta and Photography
...Her Hair Braided in Piedmont Park, 1996. Photo courtesy of Chip Simone. “Atlanta was struggling to redefine itself, and I was more intrigued by the nature of it as a...
Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey
...Chair in Poetry at Emory University. Her first collection, Domestic Work, won the 1999 Cave Canem prize, a 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize, and the 2001...
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,...