Mapping Souths
...not any one smile," he wrote, "to think of the Ohio River and the Potomac being such grand national barriers as must . . . constitute of necessity the nations...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...long, somewhat controversial tradition in southern literature, one that Richard Gray describes as "a familiar path in Southern writing, in search of the raw and marginal, disrupted lives presented in...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
Statement In the wake of the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, George Floyd, David McAtee, Dominique "Rem'mie" Fells, Riah Milton, and Rayshard Brooks—only the most recent deaths...
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama
...poem "Bunk Richardson." Jake Adam York reads the poem "Walt Whitman in Alabama." About Jake Adam York Raised near Gadsden in northeast Alabama by his steelworker father and his mother,...
In the Queen City: A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library
A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library Part 2: York reads from “At Liberty (1961),” “At Liberty (1964),” and “Substantiation” Part 3: York reads from “At Sun Ra’s Grave” and...