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

The Boatloads

...the roll. But before he's halfway through, there's pushing at the back of the line and no relief in sight. In the end, Charon must abandon formality, must drop the...

Six Yellow Stanzas

...me and kiss me, talk that talk. 3. I don't know how to talk that talk. I am visiting friends of a family friend. These Creole ways are something I...

Georgia Postcard

...Highway Church of God: "You come in here and pray." Roadkill, and blackbirds that pick at it, Chain gangs, and fat scarlet clover in rippling flocks — a North Georgia...

Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road

...that silence would be lost, would be written over leaving the road a by-way, a dead end with a plaque where people hold photographs to the air so they can...

Sapelo Island Flyover

...complex, paved roads, a freshwater pond created by excavation, and the present-day lighthouse, still used for guiding maritime traffic in Doboy Sound. Internal Waterway, Sapelo Island, Georgia, 2015. Screenshot courtesy...

Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland

...within the United States, rather than members of an indigenous polity seeking to protect itself against an invading empire. In Jacksonland's strongest sections, Inskeep surveys the many ways Jackson merged...

Zircon

...measured rate. The zircon lasts when mother rocks around have crumbled, worn away to sand. It keeps the fingerprints of isotopes from clouds of the original primordial dust, right here...