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

Packin' Four Corner Nabs

...Austin Foods--all the scrambled ones go to feed dog, or hogs somewhere, they say, somewhere far, far, away lookin’ at Sadie swing rebar you know she’s packed plenty I wish...

Geography

...Orleans— and each time we pull off the highway I see my father like this: raising his thumb to feign hitchhiking—a stranger passing through to somewhere else.   2. At...

Lyrics to Pretty Saro

...mine I viewéd all around me, I found I was quite alone And me a poor stranger and a long way from home My true love she won't have me...

Letter: Blues

...And Washington, and you, Love — states away. The clouds are flat. The sky is going grey. I'm fiddling with the juice jug, honey pot, White chrysanthemums that I just...

Anniversary

...slumped in the street, and Seigenthaler, who tried to stop this, beaten down and shoved beneath his car, the police just blocks away. Whenever water's broken water moves to mend,...

The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border

...ways, but it was also often accomplished through overt tactics such as racially restrictive covenants that simply stated 'said property shall not be sold to nor occupied by Negroes, nor...

Roadside Architecture

...Mississippi and the states bordering it had, for me, been little more than places to drive through on the way to somewhere else. When the mid-South unexpectedly became my home,...