Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...to national and transnational trade: "It has always been exceedingly difficult to ascertain the exact number of slaves in the Southern states; the usual estimate is about four and a...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...that a number of forward-looking faculty members in literary studies and cultural studies in English departments would gladly promote our recognition that, instead of engaging in the traditional myopic behavior...
The Change
...through the rows to reach the twenty-five gallon jugs of water placed throughout the field to encourage and in attempt to satisfy our insatiable thirsts from drinking air...
My Grandmother's Plot in the Family Cemetery
...story is told by this place. The two of them lie beneath one stone, Mother and Father in cursive carved at the foot of the grave. My grandmother, as though...
Rent
...and thick as my thumb, invalid, being fed the house, birthing more of what would keep her fed. When I worried the place would fall, you laughed not in our...
Geography
...More than twenty years gone, he’s come back to see this place, recollect what he’s lost. What he recalls of my childhood is here. We find it in the brambles...
#598, Common Meter
...as an earnest of the place Has his own Spirit given. 5) “Tis pleasant to believe thy grace, But we had rather see: We would be...
Sweep
...as he loosens the clamps to replace my ruptured heater hoses, have aged twenty years since I saw them last and want only to talk of high school and who...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...no place. "Mississippi has two cities," said Faulkner, "Memphis and New Orleans." Upriver, the Vienna of the Delta is Clarksdale. We looked for easy sevenths and found a covered wagon...
History: The Parlor
..."including cyclopedias and books of influence," one mahogany upholstered sofa, three wooden rocking chairs, and a sewing machine. The furnishings and their placement in this house was typical for the...