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

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...

They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama

Essay On a spring evening in 1911, a mob of about fifty white men in the small city of Livermore, Kentucky, lynched Will Potter on the stage of the local...

Seeing Sound: Mapping Florentine Soundscapes

Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Niall Atkinson is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Art History and the College at the University of Chicago. His publications include The Noisy...

The Bulletin—November 29, 2012

...reported by Nick Carbone of Time magazine's Newsfeed Blog. The border between North Carolina and South Carolina has been redrawn numerous times over the course of British colonial and United...

On Fair Use

...higher education. The United States Copyright Office outlines its "fair use" policy in Section 107 of Title 17 of the United States Code, enumerating "various purposes for which the reproduction...

Whiskey and Geography

...no one desperate enough to take the job.8Ibid. Resistance to the whiskey tax politicized and united many local communities in ways that no other issue had before. Even as Secretary...