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

They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama

...22 Apr. 1911, 12; Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal, 13 May 1911, 1. The NAACP wrote to both President Taft and Kentucky governor Augustus Wilson in protest. This national attention compelled Governor...

Mississippi: State of Confession

...for Human Rights, 1944-1955 (Cambridge, U.K.; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003). As Mississippian Ellie Dahmer stated about the 1966 assassination of her husband and local National Association for the...

"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying

...the Sun (New York: Scribner's,1976), Ian Hamilton's Writers in Hollywood: 1915–1951 (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1990), Joseph Blotner's Faulkner: A Biography (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1974), and Meta...

In the Magic City

...browning air     the static that backs the horn when I start it up again.     Tyner almost sweats what he keeps just out of time,     what Jimmy's talking...

Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor

...is currently an associate professor of English and holds the Paul & Clarice Kingston Reynolds Chair at University of Nebraska at Kearney. Her published books include Blood Run (2006), Off-Season City Pipe (2005), Rock, Ghost,...