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

How I Shed My Skin

...ever, realistic and sorrowful, acknowledging the slow pace of change and the maudlin appeal of instant reconciliation. His meditation on genre morphs into a stunning dialectic on the individual and...

The Liminal Site

...Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1977), 3. Start of the raised vegetable bed, with Virginia bluebells lining the path, Carolina silverbell and wildflower...

They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama

...the opera house, so that an otherwise all too typical lynching became national, and even international, news. The story, for instance, appeared in a Paris newspaper, Le Petit Journal, along...

Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans

...cabin, installing the de rigueur four-poster bed and lining the study with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves crammed with his collection of "pre-Civil War Portraits of Negroes." He'd write for a spell, amble...

An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim

Readings Rodney Jones reads the poem "Failed Memory Exercise." Poem text. Rodney Jones reads the poem "I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees." Poem text. Rodney Jones reads the poem "Homage To...

The Bulletin—February 11, 2013

...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. In the wake of the thirty four-minute power outage that interrupted the Superbowl—held February 3, 2013 at the Superdome in New Orleans—journalists...

Palomares Bajo

...of the Navy, 1941-2004, NWDNM(m)-428-NPC-36224 - 9, 36231 - 3, 36253, 36259, 36554 - 7, 36563 - 6, 36570 - 3, 36679, 36746 - 7, 36760 - 1. Shot lists...