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

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...

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...

The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On

...latest technology: Princess phones played recorded messages and elaborate electric maps traced troop movements. A Mercury space capsule proudly perched nearby, an incongruous and yet resonant symbol of the unified...

Packin' Four Corner Nabs

...butter from packin’ four corner nabs even after the shower down spot a teamster card on the visor   Published in Off-Season City Pipe: Work (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2005)....

Putting up Beans

...don’t wear aprons much anymore.   Published in Off Season City Pipe: Work (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2005). Published: 14 October 2010 © 2010 Allison Hedge Coke and Southern Spaces...

Off-Season

...I am. Fieldworker, or framer, I only showed you what you said I couldn’t be.   Published in Off Season City Pipe: Work (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2005). Published: 14...