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

Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"

...the new if window air conditioners had been invented during his classic period. Washstand in the dog run and kitchen of Floyd Burroughs' cabin. Hale County, Alabama, 1935 or 1936....

Single Centers of Creation?

Essay Detail from Nancy Lowe, Source, Species Icons exhibit, Schatten Gallery, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 2009. Introduction In this sampling from ORIGIN, a collaborative exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of...

Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road

Tarsus, Alabama It takes a while to find the place where I can hold the photograph and the mountain will finish itself, and a while until I'll let it drop...

The Bulletin—November 29, 2012

...of the Historical Maps of Alabama Collection, University of Alabama Department of Geography. Via Wikimedia Commons. This 1818 map shows the states of North Carolina and South Carolina, with new...

In the Magic City

      Birmingham The needle floats over and over     the end of Coltrane's "Alabama," channeling in the rush of feet,     of tires wearing down into the asphalt and the...