The Southern Quarterly Call for Papers
...on our submissions guidelines page (http://www.usm.edu/southern-quarterly-literary-magazine/guidelines.htm). Please submit original manuscripts to the following address: Managing Editor The Southern Quarterly The University of Southern Mississippi 118 College Drive #5078 Hattiesburg, MS...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
Review Kelly Yandell, Foodways Texas oyster tasting at Gaido's Restaurant, Galveston, Texas, 2011. On a late February Saturday night in Galveston, Texas, I stood shoulder to shoulder with a hundred...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...TV. "How can I miss you when you won't go away?" sings native Arkansan Dan Hicks in his tongue-in-cheek classic. As someone continually and deeply interested in individual stories, personal...
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together? Part 2: Womack analyzes Posey’s representation of the vexed relationships between Creeks and Freedmen in the Creek Confederacy...
Opening at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
...in the documentary arts, and ordinarily will hold an academic appointment in the appropriate department in Duke's School of Arts and Sciences. Read more: www.documentarystudies.duke.edu. DEADLINE: September 1, 2012. To...
"No Deadline Short of the Grave": The Photographs of Paul Kwilecki
Presentation Part 1: Tom Rankin introduces the life and work of Paul Kwilecki and his relationship to Decatur County, Georgia. Part 2: Rankin discusses the evolution of Kwilecki's photographic style...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
Review Rowan County Court House and Jail, Salisbury, North Carolina, circa 1905-1915. Courtesy of the Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards, North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at...
Birdhouses
Introduction When we examine a nest, we place ourselves at the origin of confidence in the world. —Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space1Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space (New York:...
Theories of Time and Space
Video Theories of Time and Space You can get there from here, though there’s no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you’ve never been. Try this: head south...
From A Field Guide to Etowah County
...never wrote coiled in field reports and requisitions, and three days later a church-bomb in Birmingham blew the stained-glass face of Christ like a dandelion head in the roadside weeds....