#SAYHERNAME: Towards a Gender Inclusive Movement for Black Lives
Presentation Question & Answer Session About the Speaker Dr. Brittney Cooper is assistant professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University. She received her PhD in American Studies from the...
Insistent Traces
...Pharoah. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The New England Review, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, TriQuarterly, and Crazyhorse. In 2008 Emerson was named Poet Laureate of Virginia. Her...
Climate Change & Coral Reefs: Global Challenges from a Caribbean Perspective
Presentation About the Speaker James W. Porter is the Meigs Distinguished Professor of Ecology at the University of Georgia and a faculty member in School of Marine Programs, Water Resources and Conservation Ecology. Porter has...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...the southern segregation who knew nothing of slavery, of how people of the African diaspora had once been owned as property. I was a child of the U. S. during...
Color Photographs from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information
John Vachon, Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas, 1943. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Color Photographs Collection, LC-USW36-839. Southern Spaces recently added six new images to the...
Work
...undergird your life. But fate may lead you down a surprising path. One day you may wake up and find you had more choices than you knew. You leave your...
US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey at Southern Spaces
...Reclaim." January 22, 2009. https://southernspaces.org/2009/absence-i-know-i-wont-reclaim. Phillips, Patrick. "Watching the Surface for a Sign." April 14, 2009. https://southernspaces.org/2009/watching-surface-sign. York, Jake Adam. "A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama." March 7, 2008. https://southernspaces.org/2008/field-guide-northeast-alabama....
The Southern Quarterly's Special Issue on Natasha Trethewey
...its terrible beauty, its violent and troubled past,"2Natasha Trethewey, "How Seamus Heaney Influenced Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey," The Daily Beast, September 3, 2013, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/03/how-seamus-heaney-influenced-poet-laureate-natasha-trethewey.html, quoted in Joan Wylie Hall, "Guest...
Scarecrow
...hang And keep your eyes straight, You will see a poplar At the far edge of the field. There, A body once swayed, Burning from foot to breast. The crows...
At Sun Ra's Grave
...hung in a bronze policeman's grip. Dew rises through the halflight, a gauze, departing wings. * One drifts in the neon glow of the church's sign, News wrapped tight around...