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

Walt Whitman in Alabama

...and the mountain dead, before the sun in the tassels was wormed to shine, before shine dried into the hills with the snakes, the poetry, the legend. I imagine him...

From A Field Guide to Etowah County

...emerge, the Swallowtails' gunmetal iridescence, obsidian-with-stars wings turning like pages in hands of wind. Thrashers tear in the leaves for earthworms, salamanders, some morsel, their stipple of sunlight-in-leaves blending then...

In the Magic City

...when he feeds his tenor, what Sun Ra kept opening out     for anything more than George Wallace's crossroads deal,     the static in Clifford Gibson singing Keep your windows...

Geography

...Wolf River my father is singing. The sun is shining and there’s a cooler of Pabst in the shade. He is singing and playing the guitar—the sad songs I hide...

Emporia newspapers

...However, This Is Not Dixie and He Will Probably Be Left for the Law to Handle   Sunday morning at the hour of about 3:20 Mrs. Johnson Lusk whose husband...

Tuscaloosa: Riversong

By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers for Mister Weaver 1. Black Warrior speaks The night before they came, I walked on my river. I had strange dreams: bloody shouts to the sun,...

Excerpt from Saints at the River

...sit on the blanket. It is warmer there, the sun full upon them. She thinks about going back but is almost halfway now. She takes a step, and the water...

Zircon

...be a token from the planet's fiery birth. For zircons are almost as old as earth's creation in the conflagration from debris that formed the galaxies of suns. This tiny...

Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art

...granddaughters walk playfully ahead on a sunny, tree-lined neighborhood street. A middle-aged man in glasses helps a girl with puff sleeves and a brightly patterned dress up to a drinking...