A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama Jake Adam York reads the poem "Gone With the Wind." Jake Adam York reads the poem "At Cornwall Furnace." Jake Adam York reads the...
Watching the Surface for a Sign
Readings Patrick Phillips reads "Brass Knuckles." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads "The Chimney." Poem text. Patrick Phillips reads "The Flood." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads "Heaven." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads an excerpt...
An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim
Readings Rodney Jones reads the poem "Failed Memory Exercise." Poem text. Rodney Jones reads the poem "I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees." Poem text. Rodney Jones reads the poem "Homage To...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
Reading John Lane reads the poem "Returning Home, Saxon Mills." Poem text. About the Author John Lane teaches environmental studies at Wofford College where he also directs the Goodall Center for...
In the Queen City: A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library
A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library Part 2: York reads from “At Liberty (1961),” “At Liberty (1964),” and “Substantiation” Part 3: York reads from “At Sun Ra’s Grave” and...
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Alexander discusses growing up in NYC and Washington DC, DC as Upsouth, identifications with Blackness and southernness Part 3: Alexander discusses southernness and urban space, and...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
Interview Part 2: Morgan reads “Backwater” and discusses his history of coming to terms with his origins Part 3: Morgan reads “Heaven” and discusses the place of nostalgia in his poetry Part...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Jesse Peel on the Geography of Atlanta's LGBT Community
...of disease, to the loss of friends and loved ones. Peel also discusses Atlantans' multiple and contradictory responses to the emergent AIDS epidemic, as well as the efforts of health...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...people who shaped that history, we don't get the same detail regarding what I would call the personal past—how the Parkway impacted the 4,500 smaller landowners—the people who lost a...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...lack, then we will have lost the powerful stories of lives lived against the grain of official history, against the will of white oppressors. About the Author John Howard teaches...