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

Inside Poor Monkey's

...magazine’s Japan edition. Newspapers from the Memphis Commercial Appeal to the New York Times have published descriptions and photos. The floor plan of the lounge has been analyzed as an...

Returning Home, Saxon Mills

...Environmental Studies. His Abandoned Quarry: New and Selected Poems was published by Mercer University Press in 2011. His latest prose book is My Paddle to the Sea, published in November...

How I Shed My Skin

...phrase you'll never hear in the same way again. In 1966, Jimmy Grimsley, thirty other white students, and three new African American classmates Rhonda, Ursula, and Violet forged a "tepid...

The Bulletin—June 26, 2012

  The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those...

The Bulletin—February 11, 2013

The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...

Laurel River, North Carolina

...Rob Amberg. The new bridge over the Laurel River is the tallest bridge in North Carolina at 240 feet, Laurel River, NC, 2000. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. The new...

A Mess of Poke

...recent turn in the "locavore" movement toward wild food foraging, which seems to have particularly taken root in southern cities. See, for instance, a lengthy article in the New York...

1108 Dynamite Hill

...imposed higher car insurance fees. When Dr. King asked his brother if he knew anyone who could help, Alfred connected him with John Drew, beginning a relationship that would last...