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

Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art

...opened to the public in April 1905. The Gibbes houses a collection of ten thousand works, principally American portraits, landscapes, still-lives, and miniature portraits with a Charleston or southern connection....

I-26, Corridor of Change

...seek the perfect photograph, the longer I lived in Madison County, the more I became interested in recording the process of events, and in documenting social and environmental change. When...

Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature

...(as well as American) literature.8A list partial and incomplete would include James Agee, Dorothy Allison, Raymond Andrews, Maya Angelou, Harriette Arnow, Doris Betts, Arna Bontemps, Olive Ann Burns, George Washington...

Good-Bye to All That?

...Cole. Courtesy of the cartoonist. Having retired, I now live in the midst of great natural beauty here in the western mountains of North Carolina; every day I encounter friendly...

A Mess of Poke

...are rather stately. My Poke Sallet Granny My maternal grandmother, at least, kept eating poke sallet long after she no longer had to because she loved the stuff. Mee-Ma lived...

Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor

Readings Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "The Change." Poem text. Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "Off Season." Poem text. Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "Packin' Four Corner Nabs." Poem text....

"Aint that Something?"

...comfort for Dawn, and it's deeply tied to her family—it's impossible to separate the two. Most of Dawn's family lives in the region, but don't offer much stability—a ragged bunch...

Substantiation

...cup of names. He wires his paper that he's gone catfish fishing on the Tallahatchie, that he won't be coming home. * The defense says Till's alive and well on...