The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron
The poet tries to make the heron a god, but the heron does not care. The heron wades along the shore, a dark body absorbing light, patience stopping time. The...
Seeing Sound: Mapping Florentine Soundscapes
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Niall Atkinson is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Art History and the College at the University of Chicago. His publications include The Noisy...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...with his meticulous and elegantly written Rough Country. First, in 2015, Texas governor Greg Abbott signed into law a bill allowing Texas residents to openly carry handguns in public spaces...
Readership Reports and the Benefits of Open Access Publishing
...for "North Carolina: A State of Shock" by Dan T. Carter, 2013. Courtesy of Southern Spaces. There are several ways in which we take advantage of the accessibility of our...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...or Bayou and later left as young adults for educational and career opportunities. The act of photography for them provides a way to return home, to recover the memories and...
A Mess of Poke
...Kudzu and pokeweed in grocery store parking lot, Decatur, Georgia, 2011. My guess is that poke sallet still carries an aftertaste of poverty. Folks ate it because they were poor,...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
Review As a scholar born in the US South who has spent much of my career teaching southern history, I have often longed for a moratorium on romanticized discussions of...
Roadside Architecture
...in north Mississippi and regionally around the rest of the "mid-South." I'd spent major portions of my childhood summers in North Carolina and lived in Texas as an adult, but...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...was exciting was the sense that everyone who was willing to read widely, listen carefully, and contribute generously would be part of building a critical community. The exchange that takes...
Sowing The Seed Underground
Presentation Part 2: Ray overviews the modern extinction of many food seed varieties and the industrialization of US agriculture About the Author Janisse Ray was born in Baxley, Georgia, in 1962...