Join Emmett Till Interpretive Center and Monument Lab for a commemoration of Emmett Till’s 84th birthday, and a virtual first look at Bulletin’s latest issue.

Edited by Monument Lab Senior Curator Yolanda Wisher in partnership with the Emmett Till Interpretive Center’s Daphne R. Chamberlain and Patrick Weems, the second issue of Bulletin, Monument Lab’s print journal, delves into the theme of “Reverence.”

The issue’s release coincides with the 70th anniversary of Emmett Till’s lynching and the enduring legacy of Mamie Till-Mobley, whose public mourning became an act of resistance that galvanized the Civil Rights Movement. 

As Till and Till-Mobley’s lives are enshrined in emergent monuments across the country, Bulletin captures a long-in-the-making moment of becoming and reflection. While tracing a lineage of struggle and activism for equal rights in the Mississippi Delta and beyond, the publication explores reverence as an act of beholding and belonging.

The virtual launch of Bulletin will feature a conversation with Bulletin Editor and Publisher Yolanda Wisher and Monument Lab Director Paul Farber, along with readings by contributors January Gill O’Neil and Dick Lourie.

Dick Lourie is the author of If the Delta Was the Sea, a collection of poems based on the history and music of the Delta, in which his Bulletin-featured poem “Notes from the Future…” first appeared. As a professional blues sax player, he has visited Clarksdale, Mississippi, every year for more than two decades, performing with local musicians in festivals and clubs. His previous poetry collections include Calls on the Dream Telephone, Stumbling, Anima, Ghost Radio, and Jam Session. He is cofounder and senior editor/publisher at Hanging Loose Press, which will celebrate its sixtieth anniversary in 2026. 

January Gill O’Neil is the author of Glitter Road, Rewilding, Misery Islands, and Underlife, all published by CavanKerry Press. Her poem “At the Rededication of the Emmett Till Memorial” was a co-winner of the 2022 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award. She has received fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Cave Canem, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and she was selected as the 2019–20 John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. She is a professor at Salem State University and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Association of Writers and Writers Programs.


Bulletin features contributions by The Alluvial Collective, Tony Bolden, Adrienne Brown-David, Daphne R. Chamberlain, Gloria Dickerson, W. Ralph Eubanks, Paul M. Farber, Justin Hardiman, Jerome G. Little, Dick Lourie, Yannick Lowery, Airea D. Matthews, C. Liegh McInnis, January Gill O’Neil, Mark Palacio, Theo Palacio, Aubree Penney, Olivia C. Riley, Sonia Sanchez, Sabrina Santiago, Omar Tate, Wright Thompson, Natasha Trethewey, The Tyler Twins, Ashley Tyner, Elliot Waters-Fleming, Patrick Weems, Steve Weinik, Reverend Willie Williams, and Yolanda Wisher.

Image Credit: 
Graball Landing, Glendora, MS, 2025. Photograph by Sabrina Santiago.