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

Place, Time, and Memory

...in Washington, DC, from 1968 until the time of his death in 2016. He taught drawing and painting at the Corcoran College of Art and Design. An enormously productive and...

Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey

Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Trethewey discusses “Signs, Oakvale, Missisippi, 1941” and “Flounder” as well as landscapes in Gulfport and New Orleans Part 3: Trethewey discusses “Monument,” “Elegy for the Native...

Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts

...a woman. The local neighborhood association puts up signs that read, "A Past with a Future." As I see it, the neighborhood's past is rich with gay history, and the...

Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death

...Family enclosure at Waxhaw Presbyterian Church. The front of this memorial is engraved with an armorial design, a portrait of the minister in his pulpit, and a capsule biography: He...

CDC in the Pandemic's Wake

...of impromptu learning about the virus and measures to contain or counter was necessary. However, pandemic warning signals abounded for years, and many assets CDC needed to function optimally in...

A Mess of Poke

...favorite dire warning comes from Wikipedia: The eating of limited quantities of poke, perhaps of the shoots, may cause retching or vomiting after two hours or more. These signs may...