The State House Aflame 1833
...water, let the motherfucker burn Published in Blood Ties and Brown Liquor (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008). Published: 27 February 2009 © 2009 Sean Hill and Southern Spaces...
Nigger Street 1937
...as the congregation rises. Published in Blood Ties and Brown Liquor (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008). Published: 27 February 2009 © 2009 Sean Hill and Southern Spaces...
Just as Sure
...own level where it settles. Published in Blood Ties and Brown Liquor (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008). Published: 27 February 2009 © 2009 Sean Hill and Southern Spaces...
August, 1959: Morning Service
...dead were listening. Published in Virginia Quarterly Review (Summer 2000). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 6 December 2007 © 2007 Ron Rash and Southern Spaces...
Bunk Richardson
...weaker, all night long. Published in Murder Ballads (2005). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 7 March 2008 © 2008 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...
Off-Season
...you said I couldn’t be. Published in Off Season City Pipe: Work (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2005). Published: 14 October 2010 © 2010 Allison Hedge Coke and Southern Spaces...
Old Elementary
...released, and he was kept after, inside, in there, for punishment, in there for some small forgotten thing. Published: 26 October 2009 © 2009 Claudia Emerson and Southern Spaces...
Untitled Opening from Pinion: An Elegy
...I have come home for this. Published in Pinion: An Elegy (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002). Published: 26 October 2009 © 2009 Claudia Emerson and Southern Spaces...
Aftermath
...the blunt edge of a practiced tongue. Published in Late Wife (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005). Published: 26 October 2009 © 2009 Claudia Emerson and Southern Spaces...
Making History
...pull out spoon after spoon after spoon. Published in I Was the Jukebox (New York: W.W. Norton, 2010). Published: 22 September 2011 © 2011 Sandra Beasley and Southern Spaces...