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

The Black Belt

...distinguished by the colour of the soil. The part of the country possessing this thick, dark, and naturaly rich soil was, of course, the part of the South where the...

Three AM and the Stars Were Out

When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another farmer wanting me to lose half a night's sleep and drive some backcountry wash-out for miles, fix what...

The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On

...Civil War Centennial Center, Downtown Richmond, 1962. Courtesy of the Valentine Richmond History Center. No other place embodied that particular spirit of 1961 quite as well as Richmond, the former...

Saints at the River and Selected Poems

...watching stars awake in their wide pasture. An Excerpt from Ron Rash's 2004 novel Saints at the River   She follows the river trail downstream, leaving behind her parents and...

LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II

...LiFT Art Salong Facebook page, November 22, 2015. Courtesy of Lift Art Salon. My scholarly interests and newfound archival passions come together in the monthly LiFT art salons that bring...

LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House

...Xavier Blk and Will Edmond, two of Atlanta's hottest DJs and party promoters, discussed their business philosophy and the "creative" benefits of living as a collective. Finally, hometown R&B singer, Donnie,...

Frank Willis

...door latch. Cog, cog, cog in the wheel of history, Frank Willis in Jet these years later, like the shouted spray-paint on an empty garage in my parent's back alley:...