In the Magic City
...joints some DJ breaks all his needles, some combo plays harder than they've ever played, that someone, that anyone will work just hard enough to shut the...
My Grandmother's Plot in the Family Cemetery
She was my grandfather's second wife. Coming late to him, she was the same age his first wife had been when he married her. He made my grandmother a young...
Untitled Opening from Pinion: An Elegy
...There is no one left to know the life that happened here and say their names out loud. I have come home for this. Published in Pinion: An Elegy...
#209, Long Meter
...3) Awake, O heavenly wind, and come, Blow on this garden of perfume: Spirit divine, descend and breathe A gracious gale on plants beneath. 4) Make...
Horton newspaper
Horton Commercial, reprinted in Topeka Plaindealer. "Lynching Dead Negroes." January 31, 1902. "Had this lynching of a dead Negro occurred in Louisiana or Texas, it would be termed 'another Democratic...
Emporia newspapers
...HIS VICTIM Many People in For Hanging The Law Will Take Its Course The whole community is Arroused [sic] and Many People Are Anxous [sic] to Lynch the Niger [sic]....
Belle plaine newspaper
...negros [sic] and pounded up a few more. . . . The man may come clear but he will find it a little different than in Alabama and may wait...
Wichita newspaper
...been a higher civilization. A negro rapist has been mobbed in one of its oldest communities, burned at the stake, chained, kerosened and burned alive, in strict accordance with the...
"A DASTARDLY CRIME: A Negro Assaults' [sic] a Lady Near Ponce de Leon Springs."
...community out on West Peachtree was in an uproar of excitement. Chief Connolly was notified, and sent Captain Wright with a squad of police to the scene. By the the...
Lyrics to Pretty Saro
As sung by Cas Wallin, Madison County, North Carolina When I first come to this country in eighteen and forty nine I saw many fair lovers, but I never saw...