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

Stand & Witness: Art in the Time of COVID-19

How To Navigate We’ve arranged Stand & Witness as a guided tour. We recommend that you move through the exhibition according to the numbered tour stops or “hotspots.” To start...

Walt Whitman in Alabama

...mayor who bought the ladies' favors with river quartz, maybe east from some trip west to see or returning north from New Orleans or just lost in those years after...

Geography

...years: he’s smaller, his voice lost in the distance between us.   3. On the Gulf and Ship Island Line my father and I walk the rails south toward town....

Elegy for the Native Guards

...monument to some of the dead. Inside we follow the ranger, hurried though we are to get to the beach. He tells of graves lost in the Gulf, the island...

Work

Poem This poem was filmed at the Glencoe Mill in Glencoe, North Carolina in Fall 2005 by Chris Simms and Tom Rankin from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke...

Tuscaloosa: Riversong

Video https://vimeo.com/126188419 Poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers presents her poem "Tuscaloosa: Riversong," July 29, 2005, beside the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Poem text. Part 2: Jeffers examines the river...