Oxford American # 104, Spring 2019

Editor’s Letter: Clash of Symbols, by Eliza Borné

POINTS SOUTH
Claiming Dixie?, by Jennifer Ho

Four poems, by Ashley M. Jones

Willie’s Other Voice, by Jonathan Bernstein

The Camel Experiment, by Sasha von Oldershausen

Some People Stay, by Rachel Louise Martin

Flag Code, by Karen Good Marable

Local Fare: Oaxaca Wreck, by John T. Edge

FEATURES
Performing Arts
A story by Susan Choi

West Virginia in Transition
A ten-year age gap reveals radically different experiences for queer youth in Appalachia
by Mesha Maren

Enter the Moundverse
Art portfolio: Trenton Doyle Hancock’s ecstatic devotion to resistance
Text by Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Gusher
A personal portrait of oil-stained Houston
by Micah Fields

A Slender Wage
A story by Kevin Wilson

OMNIVORE
The House of Myth
On the architecture of white supremacy
by C. Morgan Babst

Vessel of Antiquity
Influence, invention, and the legacy of Leon Redbone
by Megan Pugh

Cooking with Chris:
Salt and Prepper
by Chris Offutt



Art by: Jhuma Das, Peyton Fulford, Jonathan Traviesa, Tommy Kha, Deana Lawson, Michael Harrington, Nine François, Dominic Lippillo, Thornton Dial Sr., John Langmore, Ilana Panich-Linsman, Meg Elizabeth Ward, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Micah Fields, Milton Carter, Charles Gaines, Carrie Mae Weems, Magdalena Solé, Arthur Usherson, Allison Stewart

Cover: “Awakening” by Jhuma Das | @JDasArt, photographed by Milli Apelgren