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

Lawrence newspaper

...a family affair, and if they don’t keep their hands out of it, Kansas is likely to back Leavenworth up to sail in and do it again. Kansas demands for...

Junction City newspaper

Junction City Tribune. "The Exodus." May 1, 1879. "Beneath the surface of this whole affair, however, there is a quiet practical joke. For years the north has complained that the...

Lyrics to Pretty Saro

As sung by Cas Wallin, Madison County, North Carolina When I first come to this country in eighteen and forty nine I saw many fair lovers, but I never saw...

Tuscaloosa: Riversong

...Tuscaloosa sleeps in the water sucks gore from his lungs strips the green crucifix roars the gumbo scream Tuscaloosa Tuscaloosa Tuscaloosa Trane's Alabama a Creole agony blood slung through air...

Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road

...that silence would be lost, would be written over leaving the road a by-way, a dead end with a plaque where people hold photographs to the air so they can...

Prayer of the Backhanded

...holding nothing tightly Against me and not wrapped In leather, eliminated the air Between itself and my cheek. Make full this dimpled cheek Unworthy of its unfisted print And forgive...

The Bulletin—April 24, 2013

...half-mile radius of the blast. The cause of the blast is still unknown. The plant, which is owned by Adair Inc.'s West Fertilizer Company, produced anhydrous ammonia (a liquid crop...

Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley

...with lentils, flash bombs, lo-fi, hi-speed. Somewhere is a petition I should be signing. Somewhere a parakeet is driving a tractor, and I am missing it. A pair of scissors...