The Bulletin—May 29, 2012
...will not approve the plan because it reduces the influence of African American voters across the state. The Alabama Legislative Reapportionment Office details the changes, which reduce the number of...
The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...this quilt, but the construction and materials tell another story. The visual appearance of the pattern is deceiving: the convex piece cut from one fabric square looks like it might...
Accidents Happen with Clockwork Regularity
...the sink, waiting for the unfortunate accidents that punctuate the day and night and all the hours and minutes within, that help you tell time. Published in The Boatloads...
Little Rock, Arkansas images
Little Rock, Arkansas: View from Pedestrian Bridge Seen from the La Harpe Boulevard pedestrian overpass are Arkansas's Old State Capitol (white building in center), the Peabody Hotel (left background), and...
Mobile, Alabama images
Mobile, Alabama: Outdoor Table and Chair, Mobile, Alabama The building in the background is the twenty-eight-story Riverview Plaza Hotel. View from the USS Alabama A World War II battleship, the...
Nashville, Tennessee images
...Complex. Tourists and Legends Corner, Lower Broadway Legends Corner bills itself as "an authentic downtown honky-tonk." Gaylord Opryland Hotel Published: 28 February 2007 © 2007 David Wharton and Southern Spaces...
Elegy for the Native Guards
...monument to some of the dead. Inside we follow the ranger, hurried though we are to get to the beach. He tells of graves lost in the Gulf, the island...
At Liberty (1961)
...can say he's there and an undertaker can come with a hearse from the next county over and then he is dead and the congressman can tell his story so...
Failed Memory Exercise
...I bump awake over the Atlantic Or wait in the plant-hung lobby of a hotel In Atlanta or Montreal and answer then, though I do not know the nature of...
Six Yellow Stanzas
...bedroom: things that are yellow and yellow alone. Published in Body of Life (Chicago: Tia Chucha Press, 1996). Published: 10 December 2009 © 2009 Elizabeth Alexander and Southern Spaces...