Roadside Architecture
...the buildings' outward appearance, and I find beauty in that—an almost Emersonian correspondence of principle and form. I showed many of these photographs to a curator a year or two...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...ordinary objects that remain from past generations, must be examined in "new and imaginative ways" to achieve "a different appreciation for what life is today, and was in the past."...
Renewing Multimedia Scholarly Publishing: A Streamlined and Mobile-Friendly Design for Southern Spaces
...design and publishing platform for future use while retroactively applying it to the journal's previously published works. Redeveloping our site ensures that our content remains accessible as the web changes....
Work
...Louisiana State University Press. What Travels With Us is the winner of the 2005 Weatherford Award from the Appalachian Studies Association and Berea College, as well as the Southern Independent...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...gardeners work to eliminate weeds, but Gainey would allow them to pop up in certain areas. To visitors, these would appear as happy accidents, but they were deliberate, as Gainey...
The Morning with Many Tongues
...was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry. Hill's poems have appeared in Callaloo, Ploughshares, Pleiades, Crab Orchard Review, DIAGRAM, The Oxford American, Tin House, and other literary journals, and in...
Country Music Scholar
...honky tonk of the oil boom with older Appalachian music Part 4: Malone discusses the commercialization of rural southern music first as “hillbilly” and later as “country” Part 5: Malone discusses relationships...
Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey
...Murder Ballads (2005), and A Murmuration of Starlings (2008). A third volume, Persons Unknown is forthcoming in October 2010. His poems have appeared in various journals, including Blackbird, Diagram, Greensboro...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Jesse Peel on the Geography of Atlanta's LGBT Community
...of answering serious questions with humor. Peel's approach invites the audience to participate in thinking about difficult topics ranging from family disapproval of homosexuality, alienation from one's childhood community, fear...
A Mess of Poke
...certain appeal for the urban palate. Take my friend Esther, who bought a well-illustrated book on fungi and became an expert identifier of edible mushrooms. She now scours her Chamblee,...