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

Changing Places, Changing Lives

...slaves were in fact other migrants who had established themselves over a number of years" (223). This admission leaves readers wondering what Pargas might have gleaned had he approached his...

COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance

...numbers of people who survived the acute phase of their infections are affected by long-term sequelae. Perhaps we now know better the enormity and implications of what was missing in...

A Green Democratic Revolution

...majority. The survival of the planet and the conditions that make it habitable is an objective that concerns a great number of people as well as various movements with heterogeneous...

The Change

...way, I was a sharecropper in Willow Springs, North Carolina as were you   and we were proud to be Tsa la gi wishing for winter   so we could...

Off-Season

...Inland Construction. I raised my back wings, those muscles wrought from priming rows, muscles which cradled my ribs and sides. I chucked tools in the flat bed, headed north, to...

#209, Long Meter

...active here.   From Lloyd, Benjamin, The Primitive Hymns, Rocky Mount, North Carolina: The Primitive Hymns Corporation, 1975. Published: 17 August 2010 © 2010 Laurie Kay Sommers and Southern Spaces...

#598, Common Meter

...absent from the flesh,    And present Lord, with thee.   From Lloyd, Benjamin, The Primitive Hymns, Rocky Mount, North Carolina: The Primitive Hymns Corporation, 1975. Published: 17 August 2010...

Homage to Mississippi John Hurt

...on a hill." So they found him on a porch and took him north to become briefly, cogently famous and leave songs — "Louis Collins," "Candy Man," "Make Me a...