At Liberty (1964)
...and cedar, all its innumerable wings, and tomorrow he will be gone from the lumber-yards and the farmhouse windows that semaphore like televisions and the vacant hands of Herbert Lee...
Stones and Shadows
...the driver's seat. "Son," says the voice. "Son, I think it's going to be a good year for you." The car arrives at the house, where my mother is waiting,...
The Boatloads
...like the print of a rubber stamp, rough from reuse. At the bank of the river, hoary old Charon can barely keep up. Each day he has more trips to...
Brass Knuckles
Something so pleasing in their heft it's easy to forget how my grandfather used them in those days when everybody knew he kept a hundred rolled and rubberbanded in the...
Talk Radio, D.C.
...fever, burning and burning. When the doctor left the house, my grandmother snuck in the back door with a croaker sack of mackerel. She wrapped me all up in that...
Prayer of the Backhanded
...holding nothing tightly Against me and not wrapped In leather, eliminated the air Between itself and my cheek. Make full this dimpled cheek Unworthy of its unfisted print And forgive...
Glocal Lounge
...develop a "global sense of place." This project of thinking about the complex imbrications between the local and the global is one of the more productive developments in literary and...
The Bulletin—November 29, 2012
...line between the two states. As noted by AP reporter Jeffrey Collins, the roots of the disputed border line go back to a 1735 order from King George II to...
The Bulletin—March 20, 2013
...national attention due to both the severity of the crime and the defendants' use of social media to record and publicize their actions. The Project on Fair Representation, a conservative...
The Southern Quarterly's Special Issue on Natasha Trethewey
...refuse the concept of the postracial in and for a post-emancipation society."3Coleman Hutchison, "Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism," Southern Spaces, December 25, 2012, https://southernspaces.org/2012/three-poems-and-critique-postracialism. Former Southern Spaces managing...