Matthew Desmond’s new book dispels myths about poverty in America
…out with homeless people around the Arizona State University campus, just to try to understand the stories of their lives and what had landed them destitute. Which is to say…
Book Excerpt: What Bends Us Blue
…Atlanta. His poems have appeared in Southern Poetry Review, Ambit, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, and New York Quarterly, among others. He is the editor of an anthology, After Shocks: The Poetry…
What Things Cost offers a moving tribute to our nation’s working poor
…the anthology’s associate editor and a Ph.D. candidate at UT Knoxville, conveys the anxiety of growing up tending to her addict mother in “The Taking Apart.” The lines of editor…
Keel Hunt chronicles the life and career of a great Tennessee jurist
…to name a few. “They were the giants of that generation,” Nashville attorney Brad McLean tells the author. “It’s hard to understand any of these people without a Gil Merritt.”…
Mark Jarman’s latest collection considers time, memory, and loss
…has died. One by one, they deliver their eulogies and are described as fledglings singing. The ending suggests “that falling short / is the survivor’s song.” The children cannot match…
In Myth America, liberal historians fight back against conservative myths
…the historical evidence before us. But these days, as the center of American politics keeps eroding, the battles over history are getting nastier. Kevin M. Kruse (Photo: Ricardo Barros) With…
