The Assumption of Abe Lincoln: 2 Haikus Fan my arms to fly,tailcoat springing body loose Shoes and stockings drop earthward, vanishing in the coffin train’s…
My review of Winfred Rembert’s memoir, Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South, is posted at At the Seawall…
This Side of Hell, by Brett Cogburn, is a Western novel that takes place in the California area of the Sonoran Desert, where a treasure…
The US Census provides not only interesting demographic statistics. It is of historical importance in itself: the questions asked reflect the social concerns that loom…
A Wild Winter Swan, by Gregory Maguire, takes place at Christmas time, 1960s Manhattan. Here’s a little album of some of the places visited by…
The meat of the United States Census, taken every ten years, is the body of statistics drawn up on the people questioned. Yet the questions…