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

2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading

...year that we are celebrating. Jericho Brown         Part 2: Jericho Brown reads “Labor” Part 3: Jericho Brown reads “Again” Part 4: Jericho Brown reads “N’em” Part 5: Jericho Brown reads...

Sapelo Island Flyover

...mid-nineteenth century. Plantation agriculture depended on slave labor of people with varied languages and origins in west Africa, resulting in an enforced cultural mélange. Descendants of those enslaved people, and...

Piedmont Blues

...day. As a teenager, Baker played for house parties and square dances, but after her marriage in 1936 she put down the guitar and the banjo (except for family gatherings)...

Failed Memory Exercise

...And turned east, clattering toward the cotton gin, And returned empty, and faded beyond the track. Beyond those yards, where one day the sallow Dozers rolled and skinned back the...

Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]

...would probably have been seen as disruptive in more traditional households. Women may have been more likely to use sewing machines during the day and to save hand sewing for...

End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective

...Burkholder, "Housing as a Human Right: Community Movement Builders Organize Against Gentrification," Georgia Voice, April 21, 2022, https://thegavoice.com/today-in-gay-atlanta/housing-as-a-human-right-community-movement-builders-organize-against-gentrification/; "Who are We?" Food4Lives, Accessed June 22, 2023, https://food4lives.org/about.html. Both organizations preceded...

I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees

...branches and watch the exhausted laborers from the Burgreen Construction Company sit down in the shade, unwrapping their ham and salami and popping open their thermoses. Apparently, they too are...