Winslow Homer and the American Civil War
Presentation Part 2: Peter Wood details the history of Winslow’s painting, “Near Andersonville.” Part 3: Homer’s possible motivations for painting “Near Andersonville“ Part 4: Examining soldiers in the painting, Wood offers a brief history of Andersonville Prison and the Battle of Petersburg Part 5: Theories for the diverging sets of planks in the lower portion of Homer’s painting […]
Geography
Geography Natasha Trethewey reads her poem “Geography,” 2010. Poem text. About the Poet Natasha Trethewey is a professor of English and the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at Emory University. Her first collection, Domestic Work, won the 1999 Cave Canem prize, a 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize, and the […]
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic Part 2: Greeson explores how early national writers contrast the “Plantation South” with the nascent republican US Part 3: Greeson explores the need to pursue and disavow US empire and how the “Plantation South” functions as a repository Part 4: Greeson explores how a narrative from the […]
Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor
Readings Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem “The Change.” Poem text. Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem “Off Season.” Poem text. Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem “Packin’ Four Corner Nabs.” Poem text. Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem “Putting Up Beans.” Poem text. An Interview with Allison Hedge Coke Part 2: Coke discusses “Packin’ Four Corner Nabs,” a […]
Congregation
Congregation National Park Service Gulf Islands Regional Map of Gulfport, Mississippi and the Gulf Coast About Natasha Trethwey Natasha Trethewey is a professor of English and the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at Emory University. Her first collection, Domestic Work, won the 1999 Cave Canem prize, a 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book […]
Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey
Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Trethewey discusses “Signs, Oakvale, Missisippi, 1941” and “Flounder” as well as landscapes in Gulfport and New Orleans Part 3: Trethewey discusses “Monument,” “Elegy for the Native Guards,” “Providence,” “Prodigal I,” and the documentary impulse Part 4: Trethewey discusses “Secular,” “Saturday Drive,” “Collection Day,” “Saturday Matinee,” and photographs as family artifacts Part 5: Trethewey […]
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University’s Utopian Landscapes
Introduction Mark Auslander, The white section of the Oxford City Cemetery, Oxford, Georgia, 2000. My title, “the other side of paradise,” is taken from a commentary by Ms. Emogene Williams, one of the matriarchs of the African American community of Newton County, Georgia, as she led me and my students in 2000 across the Oxford […]
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta’s Public Spaces
Introduction Since the 1980s, various individuals and publics have dedicated memorials to LGBTQ communities in the United States, the United Kingdom, and other European countries. Among them are George Segal’s conventional life-sized bronze statues, Gay Liberation, in the United States and Karin Daan’s triangular, pink granite Homomonument in Amsterdam. Later works include Michael Elmgreen and […]
Anniversary
Readings Jake Adam York reads the poem “Anniversary.” Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem “Consolation.” Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem “Darkly.” Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem “Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road.” Poem text. About Jake Adam York Raised near Gadsden in northeast Alabama by his […]
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