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

New Shades o'Death Creek

...her head. "They destroyed the groundwater down below, of course, and the people with wells lost those. And the dust — just be glad you weren't here. White silica dust....

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...

Heaven

...together. Everyone we ever loved, and lost, and must remember. It will be the past. And it will last forever.   Published in Boy (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008)....

Bricking the Church

...and as its doctrine softens puts on a hard shell for weathering this world. Acknowledgments "Bricking the Church"  from Robert Morgan's book Groundwork (Gnomon Press, 1979) appears here by permission of...

The Bulletin—February 11, 2013

..."is both a reminder of the city’s revival after Hurricane Katrina, and the suffering and loss that happened under its roof during and after the storm," the outage brought to...

Reconsidering Appalachian Studies

Faculty and students of the Appalachian Culture Semester, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, 1980. Dr. Patricia Beaver, professor emeritus and former director of the Center for Appalachian Studies, standing...

LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House

...Salon without losing the essence of the event. People were up and moving around and able to sit by different guests, sharing the experience. And then to end the evening...

Three AM and the Stars Were Out

When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another farmer wanting me to lose half a night's sleep and drive some backcountry wash-out for miles, fix what...