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

Aftermath

...hawk has taken back the air above new grass, and the doe again can hide her young. I can tell you now I crossed that field, weeks before the first...

Covid Light and Darkness Alike

...week, all Duke classes would move on line, and with that began a collective retreat into the virtual and isolated refuge of distance. We would stay at six feet and...

Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley

...way home. After a week, the rocks were gone. My mother said our bodies can digest anything, but that's a lie. Sometimes, at night, I feel the battlefield moving inside...

The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie

...[eighteen] nineties" (91). "The Colored Exodus—Scenes at Topeka, Kansas," Harper's Weekly, vol XXIII no. 1175, July 5, 1879. Engraving by H. Worrall. Courtesy of Hathi Trust Digital Library. Image is...

Image Credits

...Suit, Faceless Man. Painting by Sandy Solomon. 1950 Toni Home Perm Advert, April 5, 2011. Photograph by Flickr user Tiffany Terry. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0. Batesville Casket Company...

In the Magic City

...city down     and groove the night again.   Published in Murder Ballads (2005). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 1 April 2008 © 2008 Jake Adam...

The Flood

...there lies another, whose name is written in water.   Published in Chattahoochee (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2004). Published: 14 April 2009 © 2009 Patrick Phillips and Southern Spaces...

Lyrics to Pretty Saro

...Ocoee, on the mount of said brow Where I once loved her dearly and I don't hate her now. Published: 15 April 2004 © 2004 Allen Tullos and Southern Spaces...