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A. H. Jerriod Avant’s debut collection, Muscadine, cultivates the vine of familial memory, eulogizing our collective losses while exalting the succor of this human life, how the native grape’s “thick skin    [that] teeth / pierce    breaks to pour // sweetly across the tongue.” Throughout these pages, a deeply Southern sensibility balances an environmental awareness … Continued

Journalist Herb Frazier and Joseph McGill Jr., founder of the Slave Dwelling Project, combined to reconstruct histories in a very personal way. Their book, Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery, tells stories of slavery through the lens of their overnight encounters with the historic sites that fostered them. Jodi Skipper, … Continued

During the Thirtieth Oxford Conference for the Book, Archives and Special Collections in the J. D. Williams Library will exhibit More Than Words: The Book as Object. This exhibition celebrates the concept of the book for itself, not necessarily for its specific content. Displays of early material range from selections of medieval fragments to the … Continued

Begun in 1993, the Oxford Conference for the Book (OCB) has become an expansive weekend where local arts and literature collide. To mark the thirtieth convening of the OCB, conference organizers worked with Oxford-based artist Anne Scott Barrett to create a poster emblematic of the rich history and promising future for the conference. Mississippi-native Anne … Continued

“Historians are fond of saying that the past doesn’t repeat itself; it rhymes,” Boston College professor Heather Cox Richardson says about her widely read daily email series, “Letters from an American.” Few are those with the dedication of Richardson, an expert on American political and economic history whose impeccably informed digest reaches over a million … Continued