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

Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction

...such as BP, Royal Dutch Shell, and Mobil that focus on deepwater drilling have predominantly relocated their operations to Houston. Methods for refining oil evolved dramatically—from boiling it (which contributed...

The Morning with Many Tongues

...Sean Hill reads the poem "In Memory Hill Cemetery." Poem text. About Sean Hill Born and raised in Milledgeville, Georgia, Sean Hill has an M.F.A. from the University of Houston. He...

The Bulletin—August 6, 2013

...to know why a sprawling metropole ranks so low while other such commuter zones (such as Houston) rank higher, you might want to consider using this project's data to launch...

Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction

...they ferried across the Alabama River in the rural Black Belt. The quilters, known for their spectacular, handmade textile art exhibited in museums from New York to Houston to Atlanta,...

Editors

...Auslander, Central Washington University Nancy Baker, Sam Houston State University Peggy Barlett, Emory University Jack Bass, The College of Charleston Margaret Bauer, East Carolina University Patricia D. Beaver, Appalachian State...

2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading

...The Best American Poetry, and in Nikki Giovanni's 100 Best African American Poems. Brown holds a PhD from the University of Houston, an MFA from the University of New Orleans,...

Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality

Review Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry, Cambridge University Press, 2011. In a few days, well before the first mosquito-killing frost reaches the South Carolina Lowcountry, I’ll head...