Vestibule
...that is what you say. What I know is what is sacred. Lord of this other world, let me recall that night. Let me again hear how our whispered exclamations...
The State House Aflame 1833
...the roof is on fire… Without a word from his master, Sam fights the flames. The townsfolk fearing Sam might slip and fall from that tremendous height look on with...
August, 1959: Morning Service
...like churned butter, my eyes closed, freed my mind into the light on the window’s other side, followed the dreamy bell-ring of Randy Ford's cows across Licklog Creek to a...
California Creek, North Carolina
...awareness of their impact and the impact they create. In order for them to come through here, to drive their cars through here, this had to happen. And this had...
Lincoln graffiti, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2010
Naming Each Place
...magazines, including The Iowa Review, Oxford American, and New England Review, and his honors include fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University and the Krakow Poetry Seminar in Poland....
Dirty Little Story
...have government so broke at every level—federal, state, and county—it can't afford to keep its nice places clean. TVA doesn't enforce its no-littering policy. Probably doesn't have the manpower. The...
Local Color
...a powerful tool through which American women could develop a distinctive, even heroic vision of lives too often pejoratively labeled "ordinary" and "small time." Through local color fiction southern women...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...place forgotten since the mid-1960s by the GOP, except when persecuting voting rights activists. With McCain's dismal civil rights record throughout years in Congress, including his (later retracted) opposition to...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
Introduction The catfish didn't miss the current. They'd never known it. They lapped the pond all day like pace cars. At feeding time, they thrashed for their share of pellets....