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

Substantiation

...emerges, a child watching from a sleeping porch catches a rustle in the bushes and soon everyone is on the hunt while in the courtroom someone is wondering about this...

Stones and Shadows

...birds stand like sentinels on the neighboring monuments, watching us with black pearls of eyes. Like the stone angels, they keep us under constant vigil. Low clouds drift by. The...

Letter: Blues

...frayed things and balding summer lawns, Watching TV baseball, shelling prawns. The women that we love! Their slit-eyed ways Of telling us to mind, po-eyed dismays. We need these folks,...

Zircon

Poem Zircon When my great-uncles dug for zircons on the mountainside and on the pasture hill a hundred years ago they'd no idea the little crystal bit they sought would...

Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art

...fountain in front of a store. Five girls and a boy watch a Ferris wheel on a neighborhood playground. Shot in 1956 by Life magazine photographer Gordon Parks on assignment in...

Tuscaloosa: Riversong

...This is not Jordan, only the river DeSoto tossed three hundred souls into, watched the water grow tall as they squirmed like dancing stones, watched the water dark and struggling...

Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia

...Wikipedia, which is ninety percent male-edited. To prepare for the wiki-edit-a-thon, we talked with editors, watched a tutorial by Adrianne Wadewitz, and learned about the methods and protocols of Wikipedia...

US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey at Southern Spaces

...Reclaim." January 22, 2009. https://southernspaces.org/2009/absence-i-know-i-wont-reclaim. Phillips, Patrick. "Watching the Surface for a Sign." April 14, 2009. https://southernspaces.org/2009/watching-surface-sign. York, Jake Adam. "A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama." March 7, 2008. https://southernspaces.org/2008/field-guide-northeast-alabama....