Three AM and the Stars Were Out
When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another farmer wanting me to lose half a night's sleep and drive some backcountry wash-out for miles, fix what...
Frank Willis
...friend Jennifer said so, never went to the Jefferson Memorial, climbed the stone rhino at the Smithsonian, cursed tourists, took exquisite phone messages for my father, a race man, who...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...simply refused to give a black farmer an application, denied the request outright, or stated that money for that program had been spent. At other times the farmer would receive...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...upper crust, was courting Genevieve Williams when her two sisters—Nell and Augusta—were attacked on Shades Mountain, approximately nine miles south of downtown Birmingham. Augusta, along with her friend Jennie Wood,...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...be the first president of African descent, and in doing so eradicated racism forever." Nominating himself as Secretary of Postracial Affairs, Whitehead promised to reimagine a number of pre-postracial cultural...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...essays is puzzling. In making the case for the significance of his approach, Pfeifer dismisses the value of other approaches to the topic—an unfortunate, but all too common, academic habit....
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...Award for Best Song. Juan Logan, Welcome Home video in its exhibit context, Charleston, South Carolina, 2009. Photo: Rick Rhodes. The blank silhouette that appears on the Wallpaper of Background...
Sea Changes in Personhood
Review While taking its cues from apparently minor literary events and artifacts, Ariel's Ecology: Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics is a major intervention in literary criticism, political...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...theories. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Cream City Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Indiana Review, Passages North, Best of the Net 2023, Best Small Fictions 2023, and elsewhere. In 2021, the Georgia Writers Association...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...year and a half and appears on his Capricorn album, Dinnertime. Next, Leavell spent six months on the road with Dr. John (Mac Rebennack). He refers to his time with...