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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...

Editors

...rights and environmental activism of a group of African American women in Gainesville, Georgia, the Newtown Florist Club. She is the former associate director of the Southern Regional Council and...

In the Magic City

...again     I step out and through the blocks where you can hear     the quartets warming up through the nightclub chatter     and hope tonight, in one of these...

Packin' Four Corner Nabs

...union thing must be like a club for preacher’s daughters I decide and slide shuffle step slide in to back up Sadie’s swings swing low, swing high, swing ‘round and...