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

Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley

...What I know of sacrifice is the tin spoons that always fall into my dorm room radiator. Cereal:spoon. Ice milk:spoon. The world is lousy with spoons. The world is lousy...

August, 1959: Morning Service

...and the gravestones leaned as if even the dead were listening.   Published in Virginia Quarterly Review (Summer 2000). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 6 December...

Bunk Richardson

Lynching photograph: February 11, 1906: Gadsden, Alabama The rope grips the iron where the iron bites into its hold. A noose of rust, dried blood. The dew has frozen in...

At Cornwall Furnace

...rise. Flawless architecture of a monument. Silent, we heft the pig and give it back.   Published in Murder Ballads (2005). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published:...

From A Field Guide to Etowah County

...written in your skin.   Published in Murder Ballads (2005). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 1 April 2008 © 2008 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...

In the Magic City

      Birmingham The needle floats over and over     the end of Coltrane's "Alabama," channeling in the rush of feet,     of tires wearing down into the asphalt and the...

At Liberty (1964)

...have to see it, so he won't have to whisper it, even once, ever again.   Published in A Murmuration of Starlings (2008). Text may vary slightly from the video...

Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered

"The Nation and the Negro," The Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, February, 2013. Photograph by Paige Knight. Courtesy of Pellom McDaniels III and Paige Knight. "The Nation and the Negro"...