Franklin (1879-1960) led an extraordinary life; from his youth in what was then Indian Territory to his practice of law in 20th-century Tulsa, he was witness ...

Some years before Peter Taylor’s death in 1994, the tacit agreement was made that Hubert McAlexander would be the author’s biographer. Peter ...

With The Glass Globe , celebrated poet Margaret Gibson completes a trilogy distinguished by its meditative focus on the author's experience of her late ...

In her beguiling new collection, Bright Stranger, Katherine Soniat invites the reader to celebrate the unfinished and unsure. The poems in this volume ...

Often overlooked in historic studies of New Orleans, the city's Hispanic and Latino populations have contributed significantly to its development. Hispanic ...

In Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South Jeannie Whayne employs the fascinating history of a powerful plantation ...

Alice Fulton, the judge for the 1998 Walt Whitman Award, calls  Once I Gazed at You in Wonder  “quite simply, the most endearing book ...

In his second poetry collection, Infinite Altars, James Brasfield tracks restless interplays of light on a fallen feather outside an Italian chapel, the ...

In recent years, ethnographers have recognized south Louisiana as home to perhaps the most complex rural society in North America. More than a dozen French-speaking ...

Characterized by precision of statement and clarity of detail, W.W. Blackford's memoir of his service in the Civil War is one of the most valuable to come ...