An Absence I Know I Won’t Reclaim
Overview Readings Rodney Jones reads the poem “Failed Memory Exercise.” Poem text. Rodney Jones reads the poem “I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees.” Poem text. Rodney Jones reads the poem “Homage To Mississippi John Hurt.” Poem text. Rodney Jones reads the poem “Sweep.” Poem text. In this interview at the 2009 Association of Writers and Writing Programs […]
Shadows along the Waccamaw
Overview Readings Dan Albergotti reads “The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron.” Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem “The Boatloads.” Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem “Accidents Happen with Clockwork Regularity.” Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem “Vestibule.” Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem “Stones and Shadows.” Poem text. Interview with […]
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O’Connor-Hester Letters
Overview Introduction: A Visit to Andalusia, August 2007 The road leading to the farmhouse is long, rutted, and unpaved —the land surrounding it, quiet and unkempt. I pass a dilapidated milking shed as the house appears in relative contrast — pleasant, somewhat imposing, and upright. It is larger than I had expected and inviting despite […]
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O’Connor’s Farm
Overview Photographing Andalusia After receiving permission from the Flannery O’Connor-Andalusia Foundation to visit and photograph, in April, 2007 I went to Milledgeville from my home in South Carolina. Andalusia is located on Highway 441, four miles outside of town. Visitors must traverse a four-lane highway of sprawl to reach the entrance to the farm across […]
In the Queen City: A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library
Overview A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library Part 2: York reads from “At Liberty (1961),” “At Liberty (1964),” and “Substantiation” Part 3: York reads from “At Sun Ra’s Grave” and “Walt Whitman in Alabama” Text of Poems Referenced “In the Magic City,” “From A Field Guide to Etowah County,” “The Crowd He Becomes,”“At Liberty […]
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
Overview Presentation Part 2: Gwin explores temporal and spatial dimensions of mourning, posing questions of how to mourn and celebrate Evers Part 3: Gwin situates aesthetic and ethical responses from Baldwin, Moody, Welty, and Walker, highlighting attention to the local Part 4: Gwin recounts how Evers’s death spurred Baldwin, as emissary to Mississippi and as […]
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama
Overview A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama Jake Adam York reads the poem “Gone With the Wind.” Jake Adam York reads the poem “At Cornwall Furnace.” Jake Adam York reads the poem “Bunk Richardson.” Jake Adam York reads the poem “Walt Whitman in Alabama.” Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: York discusses his relation to “the […]
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
Overview Readings Fall Creek As though shedding an old skin,Fall Creek slips free from fall’s weight,clots of leaves blackening snags,back of pool where years agolocal lore claims clothes were shedby a man and woman wedless than a month, who let hoeand plow handle slip from hands,left rows half done, crossed dark wavesof bottomland to […]
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?
Overview Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together? Part 2: Womack analyzes Posey’s representation of the vexed relationships between Creeks and Freedmen in the Creek Confederacy Part 3: Womack contrasts Posey’s stories of racial/ethnic interdependency with the contemporary reality in the Creek Confederacy Interested in submitting your work to Southern Spaces? […]
Place, Time, and Memory
Overview Place, Time, and Memory Part 2: Works that reveal the passage of time and nature upon buildings and landscapes Part 3: Origins and intentions ofChristenberry’s “Klan Tableau,” the creation of “Dream Buildings,” and later sculptures Interested in submitting your work to Southern Spaces? Similar Publications Sections