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

Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander

...from “Six Yellow Stanzas,” exploring legibility, estrangement, and connections to New Orleans Part 6: Alexander discusses black migration experience in her family, her use of direct address, and reads from “Georgia...

Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions

..."DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II." Southern Spaces, October 28, 2016. https://southernspaces.org/2016/ddt-disbelievers-health-and-new-economic-poisons-georgia-after-world-war-ii. Cooper, Brittney. "#SAYHERNAME: Towards a Gender Inclusive Movement for Black...

Congregation

Congregation https://vimeo.com/134849755  Natasha Trethewey reads her poem "Congregation," 2010. View poem text here.   National Park Service Gulf Islands Regional Map of Gulfport, Mississippi and the Gulf Coast About Natasha Trethwey...

Reckoning with Enslavement

Excerpt Georgetown, April 2017 It was early morning when I crossed the Francis Scott Key Bridge from Virginia into Georgetown. College spires loomed in the distance, gray in the dawn...

Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley

Jim Bunkley interview. Recorded in Geneva, Georgia, 1969. Bunkley discusses his life, music, and brief work in a medicine show in Southwest Georgia. Courtesy of George Mitchell and Fat Possum...