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

Gold Records in Deep Space

...in 2003. In shocking fashion, an aged artist reflected upon fleeting life and the inevitability of death. When Cash sings, "You could have it all / My empire of dirt,"...

Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander

...Postcard”  Part 7: Alexander reads and discusses “The Dirt Eaters” and “Ars Poetica #100: I Believe”  Text of Poems Referenced "Ellipsis," "Letter: Blues," "Frank Willis," "Talk Radio, D.C.," "Race," Phillip Levine's...

Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions

...and Ann Pancake. "Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake." Southern Spaces, May 30, 2017. https://southernspaces.org/2017/closer-ground-conversation-ann-pancake. Yaeger, Patricia. "Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology." Southern Spaces, February...

Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"

...and that night, at the bar, somebody asked me what I'd been photographing and I told him, 'Oh just dirt by the side of the road. I've been photographing democratically.'"5Holzeimer...

Tuscaloosa: Riversong

...tribe is strong behind our drums and sliced trees. We are strong against these whites with sticks like dirty breath, these silly children snatching toys. They do not see me....