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

Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley

Interview with Sandra Beasley Part 2: Jake Adam York & Sandra Beasley discuss traveling and engaging with the “culinary South,” “traditional” cuisine, and more Part 3: Jake Adam York & Sandra Beasley...

Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19

...the US and Global South, edited by Dr. Mary E. Frederickson. Submit all inquiries and materials to Southern Spaces managing editor Mary Ann Robertson at seditor@emory.edu. See the Southern Spaces...

A Mess of Poke

Essay If some of y’all never been down South too much, I’m gonna tell you a little bit about this, so that you’ll understand what I’m talking about Down there...

Anniversary

...of poetry include Murder Ballads (2005), A Murmuration of Starlings (2008, and Persons Unknown (2010). His poems appeared in various journals, including Blackbird, Diagram, Greensboro Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Review,...

Brown, Black, and White in Texas

...to Crystal City to join the political protests. By the same token, few Mexican Americans from South and Southwest Texas went to cities like Dallas and Houston to take part...

1108 Dynamite Hill

Video https://player.vimeo.com/video/652096254?h=527be50265&amp Essay Jeff Drew, born in 1951, is a lifelong resident of Birmingham, Alabama's North Smithfield neighborhood. In 2013, following the fiftieth anniversary commemoration of the Birmingham campaign of...

Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans

...of the plantation South. His romantic histories, beginning with Fabulous New Orleans, and followed quickly by Father Mississippi and Old Louisiana, all authored during a literary sojourn in New York...