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 ....
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
...for a number of months at Arlington House, explained that visitors sometimes took her aside to ask in hushed tones, "Were there really slaves here?" She also observed that some...
Baton Rouge, Louisiana images
...2004, there were a number of construction projects underway in downtown Baton Rouge. Tourist on Docked Riverboat Modern-day riverboats, decorated like their nineteenth-century predecessors, transport tourists up and down...
The Border South
...it turns out, stood right on the border on the Ohio River: Jefferson County with over 10,000 enslaved persons. The Border, however, was also home to the largest numbers of...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
Review A Gullah proverb warns, "every sick ain't fa tell de doctor" ("don't tell the doctor all your ailments"). After reading Sex, Sickness, and Slavery, the wisdom of that saying...
Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
...covering former salt-marsh environments. Also note new-growth smooth cordgrass on the relict marsh. 2:46 – The transitions of Nannygoat Beach include offshore sands, beach, coastal dunes, back-dune meadows, and maritime...
Just as Sure
...Covered farms, drowned a tree or two. They bought all the land on that new shore. And you know, things gon keep changing as sure as fools make decisions with...
Off-Season
...we returned to what we both knew and belonged to. The off-season only an off-shoot in what we were meant to be. You never did know this part of what...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...she thinks I wouldn’t know. Published in Abandoned Quarry: New and Selected Poems (Mercer, GA: Mercer University Press, 2011). Published: 31 October 2011 © 2011 John Lane and Southern Spaces...