Putting up Beans
...filled with great leaves of tobacco, green as beans. Though soon to be gold and brown cured. Now nowhere near Winston or Salems. Not even close to American Spirit. More...
The Change
...hunt for meat when I wanted and find peace. I heard you remarried and went into automated farming and kept up with America. I watched all of you from the...
Ars Poetica #100: I Believe
...is the human voice, and are we not of interest to each other? Published in American Sublime (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2005). Published: 10 December 2009 © 2009 Elizabeth Alexander...
Little Rock, Arkansas images
...the twenty-four-story Bank of America Building (right background). Lunch Hour Office workers walk along Little Rock's West Markham Street. Published: 28 February 2007 © 2007 David Wharton and...
Atchison newspaper
...the action as disgraceful, and within a few weeks the entire affair will be forgotten. This is a way Americans have. The pulpits will ring with denunciation, and the people...
Birmingham, Alabama images
...1963-- shortly before morning services were to begin--the Ku Klux Klan bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing four African American girls. Published: 28 February 2007 © 2007 David Wharton...
Jackson, Mississippi images
Jackson, Mississippi: Speeding Car, Farish Street Just a few blocks west of the State Capitol is Farish Street, at the heart of what was once Jackson's main African American business...
Atlanta's Black Population
Maps for Figure 6, Andrew Wiese, African American Suburban Development in Atlanta Kevin Kruse, White Flight and the Making of Modern Conservatism Published: 29 September 2006 © 2006 Andrew Wiese...
Ellipsis
...its place, Wind in the willows, a whiff of something sweet, something sour, something always in its place. Published in American Sublime (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2005). Published: 10 December...
The Bulletin—July 2, 2013
...lethal injection and the first African American executed since 1967. McCarthy, convicted of robbing, beating, and stabbing to death a seventy-one-year-old emeritus professor of psychology, was injected with one large...