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

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Copyright for contributions published in Southern Spaces is retained by the authors, with publication rights granted to the journal. Content is free to users. Any reproduction of original content from Southern Spaces must a) seek...

Image Credits

...Pietà Revisited, 2014. Mixed-media collage by Jonathan Kent Adams. Freedom?, 2014. Mixed-media collage by Jonathan Kent Adams. Hoosier Hospitality, March 30, 2015. Photograph by Flickr user Mike Licht. Creative Commons...

The State House Aflame 1833

...the purchase of his freedom from John Marlow. The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire, We don't need no water, let the motherfucker burn   Published in Blood...

Three AM and the Stars Were Out

...a time, birthing death. Though sometimes it all works out. I turn a calf's head and then like a safe's combination the womb unlocks, calf slides free, or this night...

Off-Season

...for fall. We settled in for the long freeze. You ate ridicule and haste. We never were the same, until spring when the fields reclaimed us as their own and...

Lyrics to Pretty Saro

...and this I understand She wants a freeholder and I've got no land But I could maintain her on silver and gold And as many of the fine things as...

Fall Creek

As though shedding an old skin, Fall Creek slips free from fall's weight, clots of leaves blackening snags, back of pool where years ago local lore claims clothes were shed...

Six Yellow Stanzas

...among these creamy freesia women - they all are. They let some men be dark, like the one they call Dark Gable, who could talk that talk the best. The...

Letter: Blues

Those Great Lake Winds Blow all around: I'm a light-coat man In a heavy-coat town. — Waring Cuney Yellow freesia arc like twining arms; I'm buying shower curtains, smoke alarms,...