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

The Southern Quarterly's Special Issue on Natasha Trethewey

...its terrible beauty, its violent and troubled past,"2Natasha Trethewey, "How Seamus Heaney Influenced Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey," The Daily Beast, September 3, 2013, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/03/how-seamus-heaney-influenced-poet-laureate-natasha-trethewey.html, quoted in Joan Wylie Hall, "Guest...

Writing Appalachia

...with the remarkable number of fine authors whose works had appeared since the book's publication, made that collection feel incomplete. Aware of those gaps, Higgs and Manning, along with scholar...

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...

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...

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...