Poetry is celebrated in this third volume of a monumental anthology in four volumes collecting fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama written by authors from Mississippi, a state that has been called ...

This penetrating analysis of one of the most extraordinary fads ever to strike America details how dance marathons manifested a potent from of drama. Between the two world wars they were a phenomenon ...

This collection of interviews with Amiri Baraka, the former LeRoi Jones and a key figure in the worldwide black liberation movement, provides extraordinary insight not only into African American literature ...

Anne L. Webster (formerly known as Anne S. Lipscomb) is retired director of reference services at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. She is author of Mississippians in the Great War: ...

Carol Martin is a professor of drama at New York University.