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

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...

Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!

Review I remember well seeing Charles Moore's fire hose photographs from Birmingham in my hometown newspaper, the Louisville Courier-Journal. Six-years old in 1963, I had little understanding of the day's...

Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art

...2015, http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/thomas-harris-goes-lens-darkly. Department Store, Mobile, Alabama, 1956. Photograph 37.011 by Gordon Parks. Courtesy of and copyright by The Gordon Parks Foundation.     Parks mastered creative expression in several artistic...

Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"

...Eggleston is the World's Greatest Photographer," The Independent, April 22, 2013, accessed June 26, 2013, http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/genius-in-colour-why-william-eggleston-is-the-worlds-greatest-photographer-8577202.html What Glover missed, however, was that this attention to the everyday and the ordinary...

Geography

Geography Natasha Trethewey reads her poem "Geography," 2010. Poem text.   About the Poet Natasha Trethewey is a professor of English and the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at...

The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia

...a beautiful future. Sources “Christgau’s Consumer Guide,” Village Voice, May 29, 1984. Jason Gross, “Lynda Stipe: Oh-OK,” Perfect Sound Forever. http://www.furious.com/perfect/lyndastipe.html. Art Harris, “O Little Town of Rock ‘n’ Roll:...