Honor Jones earned her B.A. from the University of Virginia. Her prose has been published in the Chronicle of Higher Education and in the Summer 2007 and Winter 2008 issues of VQR.
We dug potatoes from their cabinets of soil, watched the belly of the earth turn over in its grave, a glimpse of flesh through darkening ground, roots and greenlings—then the plow.
Last night, as the results from the Iowa caucuses began to look conclusive, MSNBC’s co-anchor Chris Matthews marveled at the significance of the moment in American history: the people of Iowa (what many in the media have taken to calling...
