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

Fife Family Cemetery

Video Fife Family Cemetery, Hughes County, Oklahoma, 2008. Filmed by Craig Womack and Rosemary McCombs Maxey, edited by Southern Spaces staff. Affiliated essay....

John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943

...shipped, shades drawn, to this sparsely populated southern flatland—a grueling four-day journey from the Pacific Coast to the banks of the Mississippi River. Shunted into the plywood and tarpaper barracks,...

No Place

...You Think Of?" is also available on Southern Spaces. Cover Image Attribution Abandoned bridge over the Cahaba River, January 10, 2021. Photograph by Flickr user MK Hardy. Creative Commons license...

The Bulletin—July 2, 2013

...coverage of the provision—sued US Attorney General Eric Holder, arguing that "The South has changed." Chief Justice John Roberts, in the majority opinion, agreed: "Things have changed in the South....

Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference

Welcoming Comment from Natasha Trethewey Natasha Trethewey, Welcoming Comment, 2014. About the Speaker Natasha Trethewey is a Pulitzer-Prize winning poet (Native Guard, Mariner Books, 2006) and former poet laureate of...

Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor

Readings Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "The Change." Poem text. Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "Off Season." Poem text. Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "Packin' Four Corner Nabs." Poem text....