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

Packin' Four Corner Nabs

...nabs under her belt 500 gallon vats--peanut butter stink so strong the smell lasts a lifetime and more crackers flying by ‘bout ninety miles per pull and pack ten thirty,...

Rent

...us and spiders—seasonless—survived the broom to live in every corner, their egg sacs hung like soft, spun pearls. Every spring, the bedroom filled with termites flying, having come up from...

#598, Common Meter

...And here my spirit waiting stands,    Till God shall bid it fly.   3) ‘Tis he, by his almighty grace    That forms thee fit for heaven:    And...

Homage to Mississippi John Hurt

...on a hill." So they found him on a porch and took him north to become briefly, cogently famous and leave songs — "Louis Collins," "Candy Man," "Make Me a...

Six Yellow Stanzas

...black sparks fly, a hive of bumblebees which hum at your body and do not sting. 6. Egg yolk, crocus, buttercup, butter, dandelion, sunflower, sunbeam, sun, chicken fat, legal pads,...

Prayer of the Backhanded

...arm Like an angel's invisible wing May fly backward in fury Whether or not his son stands near. Help me hold in place my blazing jaw As I think to...

Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects

...suppression Print culture and protest (pamphlets, broadsides, flyers, picket signs, graffiti) Politics in fiction and popular culture Examples Southern Spaces continually accepts submissions within several genres of multimedia scholarship, including...

Southern SpacesĀ Recommends

...at Southern Spaces "An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America" by Grace Elizabeth Hale "Ossabaw Island Flyover" by Anthony Martin, Steve Bransford, et al. "The Podcast and the Police:...