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

Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism

...interpenetration of locality and racial consciousness in American poetry between Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and Barack Obama's inauguration. Tentatively titled "The Ditch is Nearer: Race, Place, and American Poetry," the project will treat...

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

...of Illinois Press, 2015), 123. Mountaintop coal mine, Charleston, West Virginia, October 16, 2008. Photograph by Flickr user ddimick. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 2.0. Cropped from original. There is...

Letter: Blues

...hooks. A sidewalk crack in Washington, D.C. Will feed my city dirt roots. Wait for me.   Published in The Venus Hottentot (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1990). Published: 10...

The Dirt Eaters

...famili ar as the smell of dirt.   Published in The Venus Hottentot (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1990). Published: 10 December 2009 © 2009 Elizabeth Alexander and Southern Spaces...