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

Putting up Beans

...filled with great leaves of tobacco, green as beans. Though soon to be gold and brown cured. Now nowhere near Winston or Salems. Not even close to American Spirit. More...

Fort Scott newspapers

...were there arrayed in holiday attire, giving evidence of the virgin excellence of our soil. The industry and intelligence of a people who have combined to a greater degree than...

Failed Memory Exercise

...a block of stores Like a test for names, beginning with the P.O., By which, in late autumn, the loaded wagons came, The colts wheeling behind the great sober mares,...

Georgia Postcard

...spring, a spreading rash, blush. III. Kin: Sparta, Georgia 106-year-old Great-Aunt Kate calls it "the dry grin," what white people give you when they want you to think you are...

Zircon

Poem Zircon When my great-uncles dug for zircons on the mountainside and on the pasture hill a hundred years ago they'd no idea the little crystal bit they sought would...