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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...

Image Credits

...Greenwich Village, New York, New York. Originally published in David Carter's Stonewall: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution (St. Martin's Press, 2004). Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Map is in the...

From A Field Guide to Etowah County

...in his head and neck, copies of the protest scattered and streaking in the April dew. It was September, honeysuckle in full perfume, the woods a riot of grackles and...

Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road

...dipper for anyone who coughed. They taunted her, her neighbors, the store owner and the riot, even the bus driver safe within the fold, but she carried on, and they...

Anniversary

...riots where the Greyhound station's been made a museum of itself, what was reflected now etched on the windows, the froth of clubs and chains, even rakes, over the Freedom...