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

Walt Whitman in Alabama

...mayor who bought the ladies' favors with river quartz, maybe east from some trip west to see or returning north from New Orleans or just lost in those years after...

Geography

1. At the bottom of the exit ramp my father waits for us, one foot on the curb, right hand hooked in the front pocket of his jeans, a stack...

Elegy for the Native Guards

...monument to some of the dead. Inside we follow the ranger, hurried though we are to get to the beach. He tells of graves lost in the Gulf, the island...

The Bulletin—July 2, 2013

...lethal injection and the first African American executed since 1967.  McCarthy, convicted of robbing, beating, and stabbing to death a seventy-one-year-old emeritus professor of psychology, was injected with one large...

Remnants of Flannery

Flannery O'Connor's place in American literature is undisputed. A master of the short story, her The Complete Stories (1971) was voted the "favorite" of the sixty fiction winners of the...

Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey

Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Trethewey discusses “Signs, Oakvale, Missisippi, 1941” and “Flounder” as well as landscapes in Gulfport and New Orleans Part 3: Trethewey discusses “Monument,” “Elegy for the Native...