Mapping Souths
Essay Stories that use the South by purporting to map it are no new thing, as two nineteenth-century passages responding to the question of southern secession will illustrate: It is...
The Bulletin—July 10, 2012
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...
Race
...when he traveled without his white wife to visit his siblings — now in New York, now in Harlem, USA — just as pale-skinned, as straight-haired, as blue-eyed as Paul,...
Dirty Little Story
...yes, I've been to New Jersey. Rheta Grimsley Johnson, Trash on a beach on Pickwick Lake, Fish Trap Hollow, Mississippi, 2012. "Litter" sounds like a McDonald's coffee cup on the...
Steeplechase postcards
Coney Island's Steeplechase, the longest-running park on New York's Coney Island, was the namesake for parks in Connecticut and New Jersey. Postcard from Coney Island, Steeplechase Park, Coney Island, NY,...
Little Ivy, North Carolina
Little Ivy Church, Mars Hill, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Blueprints for construction of new Little Ivy Church, Mars Hill, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Cemetery...
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama
...Murmuration of Starlings (2008), and his poems have appeared in various journals, including Blackbird, Diagram, Greensboro Review, Gulf Coast, H_NGM_N, New Orleans Review, Shenandoah, and Southern Review. Interview with Natasha...
In the Queen City: A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library
...(2005), and A Murmuration of Starlings (2008), and his poems have appeared in various journals, including Blackbird, Diagram, Greensboro Review, Gulf Coast, H_NGM_N, New Orleans Review, Shenandoah, and Southern Review....
Single Centers of Creation?
...this biogeographical idea; perhaps it is not as simple and straightforward as we thought. Species originate from one place, they disperse, migrate, branch into new species, some die off ....
Antietam
...that zigzag fence. We tried to picture 23,000 of anything. It wasn't that pretty. The dirt smelled like cats. Nobody knew who the statues were. Where was Stonewall Jackson? We...