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

August, 1959: Morning Service

...spring pool where orange salamanders swirled and scuttled like flames. It was not muttered words that urged me back to that church, nor was it the hard comfort of pews...

From A Field Guide to Etowah County

...emerge, the Swallowtails' gunmetal iridescence, obsidian-with-stars wings turning like pages in hands of wind. Thrashers tear in the leaves for earthworms, salamanders, some morsel, their stipple of sunlight-in-leaves blending then...

Sweep

...ballcarrier who follows the sweep, and it comes, and comes on.   Published in Salvation Blues: One Hundred Poems, 1985-2005 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), 4-5. Published: 22 January 2009 ©...

History: The Parlor

...chose to provide a single appraisal figure for the content/s of each of the nine rooms rather than itemizing the individual objects. They evaluated the "sewing machine and other furniture...

Atlanta's T-SPLOST Referendum and Atlanta Studies

...by unraveling the complex history of the contentious T-SPLOST (Transportation Special-Purpose Local-Option Sales Tax) initiative that was defeated in a 2012 referendum. "A Well-Tied Knot" joins Southern Spaces' growing collection of...

The Bulletin—June 19, 2013

...which passed in April 2013, prohibits the retail sale of "certain smoking pipes and smoking devices." Violators of the new law will be charged with a first degree misdemeanor. Retailers...