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

Atchison newspaper

...of it.'"   Atchison Daily Globe, January 22, 1901, untitled. "The 'joke' on Leavenworth has been carried to that point where it is proposed to put Leavenworth county into Missouri."...

Sonic Zora in Florida

...of these big, colorful and complex songs of the self, Black folks make their own time while the wheels keep turning round and round. About the Author Daphne A. Brooks is...

Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment

...Take Highway 11 North all the way to Monroe. (Follow the instructions as outlined above.) Note: If you pass Church’s Chicken you have gone too far. Church Telephone Number 770-267-5819...

Love and Death at Second-Line

...car in the Quarter. Cell phones came out, some calling 911, others telling what happened. Word of mouth was that Joe the bar owner had shot the man for selling...

Congregation

...the workmen have erected a scaffolding around the tank, a radius of poles from which to hang the ropes that pull them up. From a distance, the scaffolding is a...

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...

Saints at the River and Selected Poems

...every burden her life had carried so far, open a room for this new becoming as her body flowed around her man like water. August, 1959: Morning Service   Beside...