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

Homage to Mississippi John Hurt

...no place. "Mississippi has two cities," said Faulkner, "Memphis and New Orleans." Upriver, the Vienna of the Delta is Clarksdale. We looked for easy sevenths and found a covered wagon...

Little Creek, North Carolina

...right-of-way on Little Creek, Little Creek, NC, 1998. Stripped hillside, looking South from Little Creek, Little Creek, NC, 1998. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Power shovel clearing rubble, Little Creek,...

The Flood

...looking back, turning into a pillar of water. I drag a stick through my reflection: there lies another, whose name is written in water.   Published in Chattahoochee (Fayetteville: University...

Atchison newspaper

...there the matter will end for all time. 'It will not look right to eastern people if we do not condemn the lynching,' said one legislator yesterday,'but personally I approve...

Brass Knuckles

...didn't like the look on that ol' nigger's face.   Published in Chattahoochee (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2004). Published: 14 April 2009 © 2009 Patrick Phillips and Southern Spaces...

Race

...look from an ivory spouse who is learning her husband's caesuras. She can see silent spaces but not what they signify, graphite markings in a forester's code. Many others have...

DOIs and Altmetrics

...users have tweeted about the piece and their geographic location. Southern Spaces is always looking to adopt the most up-to-date, public-facing digital publishing practices. Stay tuned for updates as we...