Prairie Schooner

This interview is the first in the Crooked Letter Interview Series hosted by Prairie Schooner’s Southern Correspondent, James Madison Redd. On August 15th 2012 he met with poet Derrick Harriell, Professor of Creative Writing and African-American Studies at the University of Mississippi. The following is a brief excerpt from their meeting in the John D. Williams Library’s Blues Archive, one week after Harriell’s move from Milwaukee to Oxford.
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By now it’s old news: Prairie Schooner is on Kindle! Don’t worry: our 86 year old print magazine isn’t going anywhere. But as Ted Wheeler (PS’s Web Editor and the man who made the transition to Kindle possible) says, the e-reader format of the magazine will “offer long-time readers of the journal a new way to enjoy PS, and expand our audience to include literary readers with devices whose normal stable of journals might not be available as an e-book.”

This is the seventh installment of an ongoing series written for the blog by Richard Graham. Richard is an associate professor and media services librarian at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he studies the educational use of comics and serves as the film and art history liaison. His posts examine UNL’s, Nebraska’s, and the larger literary world’s connections with the comics medium.

Recently, the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at the Ohio State University asked for help identifying a myriad of comic book and strip characters that were embroidered onto a donated textile. Though it might be strange to think that such a thing exists, would it blow your mind that many comics scholars consider some textiles as comics themselves, regardless if a talking animal appears on it?

Volume 1, Issue 3. August 2012.
Dawes on Amina Gautier’s At Risk
Harlan-Orsi on William Maxwell’s Time Will Darken It
Redd on Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind
Crews on Lucia Perillo’s On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths
Diouf on Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics, and Literature