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

The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron

The poet tries to make the heron a god, but the heron does not care. The heron wades along the shore, a dark body absorbing light, patience stopping time. The...

The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi

...Henry, the great leader of the NAACP in Mississippi, but, to be candid, his wife likely would have quashed any such project. I told Ash about Jheri's SRS, then called...

The Place of Appalachia

...scourge of OxyContin abuse in rural southwest Virginia and the drug traffic of Harlem. There are related, even more direct, linkages: "development" in rural Appalachian areas has at times taken...

Brushes with War

...Reams' Station, Virginia, during the last stage of an arduous cavalry raid. Jameson was shipped to Andersonville Prison, the overcrowded, unsanitary, and disease-ridden POW stockade in southwest Georgia. By August,...

The Bulletin—July 10, 2012

...that federal rgulators have failed to protect coal miners in eastern Kentucky, southern West Virginia, and southwestern Virginia from breathing excessive amounts of toxic coal dust over the last thirty...