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

Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities

...having populations of 100,000 or more. There were fourteen: Birmingham, Huntsville, Mobile, and Montgomery in Alabama; Little Rock in Arkansas; Baton Rouge, Lafayette, New Orleans, and Shreveport in Louisiana; Jackson...

Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander

...from “Six Yellow Stanzas,” exploring legibility, estrangement, and connections to New Orleans Part 6: Alexander discusses black migration experience in her family, her use of direct address, and reads from “Georgia...

Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance

...the country, founded in 1772 (known today as the Dumbarton United Methodist Church).2The church was formerly located on Twenty-Eighth Street between M and Olive Streets, N.W. (formerly Montgomery Street between...

2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading

...from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the National Endowment for the Arts. His poems have appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker,...

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

...Louisiana. “In This Here Place” presents a collection of images from the Evergreen, Oak Alley, and Whitney Plantations along the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, capturing the...

Local Color

...are "colored" by regionally defined characters, settings, folkways, and dialects. The paradox, and thus the richness, of this often discounted form lies in the tension between local and national that...