Archive | April, 2011

Let’s get literary

20 Apr

via GSU's Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection

What’s your favorite poem about Buckhead? Come on, everyone has one!

“Looking for the Buckhead Boys” by James Dickey?

(Sample verse: “First in the heart/Of my blind spot are/The Buckhead Boys. If I can find them, even one/I’m home. And if I can find him catch him in or around/Buckhead, I’ll never die: it’s likely my youth will walk/Inside me like a king.”)

“Buckhead Spring” by Clark Dean?

(Sample verse: “And a woman walks her goldendoodle alongside joggers who stride down sidewalks glistening,/while brightly colored buses lurch from their stops to join the sports cars and SUVs/that parade down Peachtree”)

“This Smells” by an elderly academic?

(Sample verse: “And I remember that ’56 Chevy/Barrelling down the valleys of Piedmont and Habersham/Down, careening one-eyed in to the trees down Roswell Road/Down our sainted and genuflecting Peachtrees”)

Happy National Poetry Month!

Previously: Buckhead Betties

Step it up

12 Apr

These photos, taken by Thomas Askew, were collected by W.E.B. DuBois and shown in his “Negro Exhibit” at the Paris Exhibition of 1900 to demonstrate middle-class African-American life in America. Askew photographed many of his scenes in Atlanta because that was where black middle-class life could be had. DuBois wanted to show progress, education, and prosperity – the lives of the “talented tenth” – in the African-American community, not the suffering and tribulation that was typically the focus of national and international attention on his race. Read DuBois’ description/review of the show, “An American Negro in Paris,” in The American Monthly Review of Reviews.

But on a lighter note – watch your step for some serious fashion!!

Atlanta University

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