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

August, 1959: Morning Service

Beside the open window on the cemetery side, I drowsed as Preacher Lusk gripped his Bible like a bat snagged from the pentecostal gloom. In that room where heat clabbered...

Elegy for the Native Guards

...intone. Only the fort remains, near forty feet high round, unfinished, half-open to the sky, the elements—wind, rain—God's deliberate eye. Map National Park Service Gulf Islands Regional Map Cover Image...

Insistent Traces

Readings https://vimeo.com/134755182 Claudia Emerson reads the untitled opening from Pinion: An Elegy. View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134755765 Claudia Emerson reads the poem "Rent." View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134756419 Claudia Emerson...

Regions of Alabama

Video   Part 2: Dr. Flynt offers an historical-geographical perspective on Alabama's economy from the antebellum era through 20th century Part 3: Dr. Flynt discusses the importance of a sense...

The Bulletin—November 1, 2012

...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. As a follow up to our Open Access Week blog post, we are sharing this one-hour webcast from the blog of the...

2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading

...Nonfiction Prize, was a New York Times Notable Book for 2012, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism, and winner of the PEN Open Award. The...

How I Shed My Skin

...unmasked. Still, the author sounds a hopeful note, crediting Violet with opening his mind in middle school. I find most compelling Grimsley's recollections of song and dance. Dances were a...

Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19

...longer articles and media productions, that address the continuing public health and political implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. Queries and abstracts are also welcome. Southern Spaces is an open access,...

Keep Your Eye upon the Scale

...Hall in Onllywyn, South Wales, 1976. Video still from Keep Your Eye upon the Scale, by Tom Hansell, Patricia Beaver, and Angela Wiley. Keep Your Eye upon the Scale opens...