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

Besieged Terrain

..."A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it does otherwise."1Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac:...

Undoing the Voting Rights Act

...members who comprise the Court's conservative wing on controversies of race, Justice Alito upholds Arizona law that invalidates a voter's entire ballot if it is cast in the wrong precinct...

Genres of Southern Literature

...States, was beginning to understand itself in terms of cultural and political difference—in terms of what its way of life was not, and what it was positioned against. In the...

Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition

.... . . It pained me to paint it over, but honestly I haven't missed it since. Perhaps I over read its symbolic importance; perhaps I let the pragmatic trump...

The Crowd He Becomes

...the crush of lookers in cigarette smoke, in the breath of many lungs, common, innocuous, a cloud about to disappear. * Will stand imagining him split at each intersection, now...

Shadows along the Waccamaw

...the role of place in his poetry, and how he relates to the idea of the "Southern writer." Part 2: Natasha Trethewey Interviews Dan Albergotti Part 3: Natasha Trethewey Interviews Dan Albergotti...