Vestibule
I sometimes wish I could find Cindy to thank her for agreeing with my fine idea that we sneak into the university chapel late one night in 1983 to make...
Georgia Postcard
...kudzu, the mammoth dogwoods, the Christmas tree farm. Published in Antebellum Dream Book (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2001). Published: 10 December 2009 © 2009 Elizabeth Alexander and Southern Spaces ...
Antietam
...feel the battlefield moving inside of me. Published in I Was the Jukebox (New York: W.W. Norton, 2010). Published: 22 September 2011 © 2011 Sandra Beasley and Southern Spaces...
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...
Image Credits
...KQED, San Francisco, California, September 11, 1961. Screenshot by Eric Solomon, March 2018. Title screenshot from "The Homosexuals," originally aired CBS television, March 7, 1967. Screenshot by Eric Solomon, March 2018....
Six Yellow Stanzas
1. Didn't know what to do at the Boule Ball, so I put on a Mardi Gras mask of a smile and watched those Creoles second-line, light yellow faces, bright...
From A Field Guide to Etowah County
...written in your skin. Published in Murder Ballads (2005). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 1 April 2008 © 2008 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...
Murray Mountain, North Carolina
...before daylight, and I go out and it's pitch black, there's no sound and no light, and that's gone. Many times I've been praying, and just thinking, this is just...
Scarecrow
...man made of straw. I hang to keep the crows away. The fruits they pick. The murders they make. When your Savior asked for water They gave him vinegar instead....
Higgins Branch, North Carolina
Tombstones flagged for removal at the Higgins Branch Cemetery, Higgins Branch, NC, 1995. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Published: 5 June 2007 © 2007 Rob Amberg and Southern Spaces...