Eileen G’Sell’s nonfiction and poetry has appeared in Salon, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Conduit, and DIAGRAM, among other journals. Her latest chapbook is available through BOAAT Press. She teaches rhetoric, poetry, and film at Washington University in St. Louis.
This photo, like so many of those in Michael Eastman’s beautiful, moving, beguiling, maddening collection, transmutes history into timelessness. The house stands alone outside of time. It is a token of the past detached from its actual and ongoing social history.
In 1950, Wellston's population was 9,396. By 2010, this number had dwindled by two thirds.
Writing on the wall: Theatergoers make their statements at the Dellwood Community Center for “Every 28 Hours.” It is possible that I am the only person I know in the Washington University community who knows Ferguson moderately well. By that I mean, I knew it before Michael Brown, and I came…
At the edge of Pruitt-Igoe, a housing development long gone, but long since remembered. (Credit: Stephen Hobbs) “This is, genuinely, my idea of beauty. This is life after cities. This is life after humans.” We are staring at 57 acres of overgrown wildlife comprising the former Pruitt-Igoe, one of the…
St. Louis's Forest Park: The distinction between entry markers and gates is not always academic.