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

Bricking the Church

Poem Robert Morgan reads his poem "Bricking the Church," 2014. Bricking the Church At the foot of Meetinghouse Hill where once the white chapel pointed among junipers and pulled a...

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Copyright Statement

Copyright for contributions published in Southern Spaces is retained by the authors, with publication rights granted to the journal. Content is free to users. Any reproduction of original content from Southern Spaces must a) seek...

Packin' Four Corner Nabs

...butter from packin’ four corner nabs even after the shower down spot a teamster card on the visor   Published in Off-Season City Pipe: Work (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2005)....

Off-Season

...I am. Fieldworker, or framer, I only showed you what you said I couldn’t be.   Published in Off Season City Pipe: Work (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2005). Published: 14...

Homage to Mississippi John Hurt

...folkies found Avalon, drove to Mississippi, and asked at a general store, "Have you heard of a musician named John Hurt?" "Third road, turn right, house on your left, up...

Runaway

Barefoot in the actual dark, I packed a paper bag And found the way out of my lover's house. I had only the glass coffee table as obstacle; I slipped...

Jarvis Branch, North Carolina

Chris Carter’s home being moved out of the right-of-way of I-26, Jarvis Branch, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Chris Carter’s house being moved to new location off of...

Mars Hill, North Carolina

New Waffle House NC 213 in Mars Hill, Mars Hill, NC, 2004. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Signage on NC 213 in Mars Hill, Mars Hill NC, 2004. Photo courtesy...