A Publication of Humanities Tennessee

Black Socrates

The Black intellectual-activist Hubert Harrison espoused a “kaleidoscopic radicalism,” critiquing injustices of all sorts: racial segregation, exploitative capitalism, oppressive colonialism, even sexual convention. In Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black…

Holding On

…— circa 1960, holding two cups at full capacity — had resided in our Tupperware bin of dry dog food. Reese came to eagerly anticipate the sound of aluminum raking…

Mountain Meanderings

…intimate essays capture the essence of the park and awaken the desire to follow Ben Anderson into the primeval forest. Lyda Phillips is a veteran journalist who grew up in…

Contracts with the Devil

…Heat and Light, addresses the calamity of fracking. Though Haigh makes it clear from the start that energy exploration inevitably carries environmental costs, she fills her novel with characters who…

“Hymn of Departures”

Jeff Daniel Marion, a native of Rogersville, taught English and creative writing at Carson-Newman University for over thirty-five years. There he was poet-in-residence, director of the Appalachian Center, and editor…

“Cardinal”

…morning a cardinal plays the scales of our picket fence, hopping from one paling to the next, and I am taken back to 1944, darkened theater where I sit between

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