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

Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word

...4: Morgan reads “Rearview Mirror” and discusses the paradox of the mirror Part 5: Morgan describes his relationships with A.R. Ammons and Jake Adam York, as well as the role of place...

Dirty Little Story

...A Plan B is a wonderful thing at such a moment. We all pile back into the car. The weather is like October. The lake water is warm. The sky...

Rent

...will, with enough time, consume it— before going on to another survival.   Published in Late Wife (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005). Published: 26 October 2009 © 2009...

My Grandmother's Plot in the Family Cemetery

...Daughter or pitied Sister, one of those who never married.   Published in Late Wife (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005). Published: 26 October 2009 © 2009 Claudia Emerson...

The Change

...it floods    my memory.   Published in Off Season City Pipe: Work (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2005). Published: 14 October 2010 © 2010 Allison Hedge Coke and Southern Spaces...

Birth Right

Birth Right: Video and Essay Birth Right. A short video by Neeta Kirpalani and Emily Jackson, 2008. Midwifery is controversial in Alabama, both legislatively and in debates about women's health...

2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading

...year that we are celebrating. Jericho Brown         Part 2: Jericho Brown reads “Labor” Part 3: Jericho Brown reads “Again” Part 4: Jericho Brown reads “N’em” Part 5: Jericho Brown reads...

Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey

...Guards,” “Providence,” “Prodigal I,” and the documentary impulse Part 4: Trethewey discusses “Secular,” “Saturday Drive,” “Collection Day,” “Saturday Matinee,” and photographs as family artifacts Part 5: Trethewey discusses “Graveyard Blues,” “Myth,” “Incident,”...

Bricking the Church

...North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame in 2010. Born on October 3, 1944 in Hendersonville, North Carolina, he has taught since 1971 at Cornell University, where he is Kappa Alpha...