Issues
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In Appalachia, Living a Spectacle
We heard that the war was coming. We heard we were the victims & we were the perpetrators & we were the problem & we were the future. We heard a television man was coming with his camera & his vest & his eyes squinting against a hatless skyglare....
301 Motel
301 Motel Much of my work is in photomontage and mixed media. This image is a synthesis of several I made as traffic crept slowly down 301 in north Florida. Some people don’t care for the cut-across route from I95, south of Jacksonville, over to I75. They say it’s...
Southern Lit Presents: Kathryn Stripling Byer
Leaving the Dark Wood Behind Southern poetry is canonically known for its fullness of landscape. It is the attachment to the land that makes Southerners Southern—the seeking out of solitude to read nature’s messages through creeks and decaying leaves where ferns will...
Etymology of Denial
Not, in fact, a river wedgedthrough Africa, but instead a hamletin Northwest Ohio. The mayor speaksGerman, as does the teacher, and the priestand the children, and even the Moroccanwho moved in the previous year. Alleyways do not exist in Denial: you’re either a...
Entrapment
Entrapment Morgan Stephenson’s current body of work focuses on the relationship with her paternal grandmother and its continuance after her death. She reexamines memories and emotions through archival imagery, familial heirlooms and storytelling from a personal...
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