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

The US South and the 2008 Election

...the late 1960s he was part of a new generation of conservative political activists. His 1969 book The Emerging Republican Majority was a veritable blueprint for GOP politics. Phillips recognized...

Tuscaloosa: Riversong

...Family (Sarabande 2002). She is completing a third book of poetry and her first book of collected fiction. Cover Image Attribution Horton Mill Covered Bridge Over Black Warrior River, February...

Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"

...replied "that this was true, since the pictures were based compositionally on the Confederate flag."9John Szarkowski, William Eggleston's Guide (Cambridge, MA: The Museum of Modern Art, 1976), 11.  Eggleston, colorful in...

Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta

...a Region in My Mind," New Yorker, November 17, 1962, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/11/17/letter-from-a-region-in-my-mind. "[The people back home] didn't care about us no way," Scott said, speaking of whites' reception of black veterans....

Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor

...Willow, Deer (2004), Dog Road Woman(1997), and The Year of the Rat (1996). Dog Road Woman won the 1998 American Book Award. She has edited eight additional books and is the senior editor of Platte Valley...

Sowing The Seed Underground

...low-residency creative writing program at Chatham University. She has published poetry and non-fiction books, including Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (1999). Ray lives and works on a family farm in...

Bricking the Church

...and as its doctrine softens puts on a hard shell for weathering this world. Acknowledgments "Bricking the Church"  from Robert Morgan's book Groundwork (Gnomon Press, 1979) appears here by permission of...