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

Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans

...count on one hand the number of writers given high administrative responsibility. Saxon was one of them, and maybe the most highly regarded of the lot. On several occasions Washington...

Frank Willis

...when school let out for summer and eat clam strips. Water- gate was where we stopped in a carpool one year to fetch the sickly boy for day camp, where...

Saints at the River and Selected Poems

...the gravestones leaned as if even the dead were listening. Three AM and the Stars Were Out   When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another...

Mississippi: State of Confession

...apart from the "official" religious and civic history of the state and the broader cultural ethos.1Campbell Robertson, "Civil Rights Sins, Curated by One of the Sinners," New York Times, April...

Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins

...orthodoxy ultimately reveals a trend toward market-driven "reforms" and belies "the reality … that in most places [public housing] worked—and still does work" (2). Pruitt-Igoe demolition, April 22, 1972. US...