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

A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama

A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama Jake Adam York reads the poem "Gone With the Wind." Jake Adam York reads the poem "At Cornwall Furnace." Jake Adam York reads the...

Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction

...Courtesy of photographer. The authors are unable to present a more coherent account of what change might look like, I believe, because of an important omission from the main substance...

New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography

...presence of researchers in Louisiana (or any location) should be looked at as an opportunity to practice seeing with others. Our fieldnotes are not fieldnotes in that archetypal sense, though...

Covid Light and Darkness Alike

...The Covid weather tightened our geography, led to a perspective that sees closer and perhaps with more intimacy, intended or not. Anytime we find ourselves looking at a singular sameness,...

Anniversary

Readings Jake Adam York reads the poem "Anniversary." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Consolation." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Darkly." Poem text. Jake Adam...

Bricking the Church

...gullies. The little churchhouse now looks more like a post office or school. It's hard to find among the brown winter slopes or plowed fields of spring. Brick was prestigious...

John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943

...sources, nonetheless must be assessed and deciphered. In looking back at this time, if we allow a gap in the record to stand in as an absence or a historical...