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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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...salt mackerel. The next morning my fever broke and the fish was all cooked.   Published in Body of Life (Chicago: Tia Chucha Press, 1996). Published: 10 December 2009 ©...

The Bulletin—March 5, 2013

...as a hate crime. As the Chicago Tribune reported, McMillian was "one of the first viable, openly gay" candidates in the state.  On February 7, 2013, one hundred forty-eight years after the...

Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction

...the Bridge, Senator Clinton's affirmation of endurance and persistence—"the march is not over"—became a moment of unintended caricature.8Dahleen Glanton and Mike Dorning, "Clinton, Obama Commemorate Selma Anniversary," Chicago Tribune, March...

Gold Records in Deep Space

...Seaberg holds up the reel of J.B. Lenoir footage she and her husband shot in Chicago in 1965. The Soul of a Man, 2003. In the documentary tradition, archival footage...

Six Yellow Stanzas

...bedroom: things that are yellow and yellow alone.   Published in Body of Life (Chicago: Tia Chucha Press, 1996). Published: 10 December 2009 © 2009 Elizabeth Alexander and Southern Spaces...

Watching the Surface for a Sign

...this interview, conducted during the 2009 Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference in Chicago, Illinois, Patrick Phillips talks with Natasha Trethewey about his poetry. Subjects of conversation include...