Through invention and remembrance, a little bump in the earth creates a black town on a hill—its land, its losses, its living and ancestral dead.Tyree Daye’s a little bump in the earthis an act of invention and remembrance. Through sprawling poems, the town of Youngsville, North Carolina, where Daye's family has lived for the last 200 years, is reclaimed as “Ritual House.” Here, “every cousin aunt uncle ghost” is welcome. Daye invokes real and imagined peo...

Tyree Daye’s Cardinal is a generous atlas that serves as a poetic “Green Book”— the travel-cum-survival guide for black motorists negotiating racist America in the mid-twentieth century. Interspersed with images of Daye’s family and upbringing, which have been deliberately blurred, it also serves as an imperfect family album. Cardinal traces the South’s burdened interiors and the interiors of a black male protagonist attempting to navigate his many departures and returns home —a place that...

Fifteen of North Carolina’s finest writers reimagine and reclaim the stories of the ghosts who have haunted all corners of the state.North Carolina ain’t what it once was: forests and fields have given way to suburbs and vacation homes, textile mills to high tech, tobacco farms to tourism. That doesn’t mean, though, that the ghosts of the Old North State have gone away.In this anthology, readers might glimpse some of the ghostly apparitions, headless fiends...

I'm the father of Tyree and this book I wrote is about him and our experience about his first day of school. We are very excited to bring you a book that your kids will enjoy listening too as well as reading. This book will give your child a better feeling about going to daycare, kindergarten, 1st grade of school for the first time. We hope you enjoy this exciting kids book about feeling nervous and scared to go to school, but this book will most definitely change that.

A lonely, elderly man laments his lost youth and likens living in a senior center to serving time in prison for committing the crime of growing old.