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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley

...with lentils, flash bombs, lo-fi, hi-speed. Somewhere is a petition I should be signing. Somewhere a parakeet is driving a tractor, and I am missing it. A pair of scissors...

Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey

...Chair in Poetry at Emory University. Her first collection, Domestic Work, won the 1999 Cave Canem prize, a 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize, and the 2001...

The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron

...poet makes sounds like prayer, but the heron is merely annoyed, stepping into the air and pulling with broad wings. The poet carefully records a sacred text, but the heron...

Keep Your Eye upon the Scale

Keep Your Eye upon the Scale Keep Your Eye upon the Scale, 2015. Video by Tom Hansell, Patricia Beaver, and Angela Wiley. Recording Exchange in Wales and Appalachia In 1974,...

Topeka newspapers

...putting on such "airs," and proceeded to adopt the regulation Dixie method for teaching the negro his place.... Published: 6 September 2007 © 2007 Brent M.S. Campney and Southern Spaces...

Substantiation

...pair has woven strips of Look Bryant spreads throughout the woods. In twenty years no one's come. He opens a shotgun on the starlings' calls each morning and they spray...

Ellipsis

...their hair. Distant white relatives fought for the railroad stock when he died, and they won. They also got the house. You can smell the funk Of the haints in...