See That My Grave is Kept Clean

Alan Govenar is an award-winning writer, poet, playwright, photographer, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts, a non-profit organization he founded to advance essential perspectives on historical issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the author of more than thirty books, including Paradise in the Smallest Thing, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Tattoo Artist, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Untold Glory, Texas Blues, Stompin’ at the Savoy, Everyday Music, Texas in Paris, Osceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter, and A Pillow on the Ocean of Time. His novel Boccaccio in the Berkshires was published by Deep Vellum in 2021, and Deep Ellum and Central Track, co-authored with Jay F. Brakefield, will be published by Deep Vellum in 2023. Kip Lornell taught courses in American music and ethnomusicology at George Washington University from 1992 until 2023 and lives in Silver Spring, Maryland. He has published 17 previous books on topics ranging from Black gospel quartets to bluegrass in Washington DC to a biography of Lead Belly. Since 1972 his research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the NEA, NEH, and the Smithsonian Institution.