Oxford American Summer 2024

Editor’s Letter: Blooms, Greens, and Portals
By Danielle Amir Jackson


POINTS SOUTH

Dear Queen
The land that saved you, Mama
By Tauheed Rahim II

Reign of the Silver King
By Christina Leo

Clearing Ground in Georgia’s New Cannabis Country
By C. J. Bartunek

Suffering Embarrassments in a Small Town
By DW McKinney


FEATURES

THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY
Searching for James Baldwin in Alabama
By Anna Venarchik

BRACKISH WATER
How the TVA deals with the living and the dead
By Austyn Gaffney

OUTSKIRTS
Poems by Allison Pitinii Davis

THE WORM CHARMERS
A Florida family coaxes earthworms from the forest floor
By Michael Adno


OMNIVORE

AN ARCHIVE OF ONE’S OWN
A conversation with photographer Julie Rae Powers
Q&A by Mesha Maren

WILD LUNCH
Edible botanicals, documented with an artist’s eye
Images by Jimmy Fike


ART BY: Melissa Alcena, Tom Anholt, Maud Madsen, Chie Gondo, Candace Caston, Joachim Koester, Alayna N. Pernell, Beauford Delaney, Steve Schapiro, Yves Coatsaliou, Morgan Hornsby, Jeannine Swallow, Chloe Chiasson, Julie Rae Powers, Jimmy Fike

COVER: Ellie, a photograph by Melissa Alcena © The artist. Courtesy TERN Gallery, Nassau, The Bahamas. Alcena’s book People of the Sun was published in May by KGP, and is included in their new ten-volume photobook box set LOST IV