Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Alexander discusses growing up in NYC and Washington DC, DC as Upsouth, identifications with Blackness and southernness Part 3: Alexander discusses southernness and urban space, and...
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...
Forgotten Locavores: Letters and Literature of Market Bulletins
Presentation Part 2: Engelhardt’s discussion of state market bulletins’ history, content, readership, circulation, and archival importance Part 3: Engelhardt overviews the correspondence among bulletin readers and Lawrence Part 4: Engelhardt asks questions such...
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
Presentation Part One Black women who influenced Johnson's thinking about literature, folklore, the arts, and "quare theory" while growing up in western North Carolina and when attending UNC–Chapel Hill (5:27)....
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
Introduction One night in the spring of 2006, I found myself on the edges of Richmond, Virginia’s Shockoe Bottom neighborhood with a group of reluctant adolescents from my church youth...
New Shades o'Death Creek
Excerpt Set in West Virginia, this excerpt from Giardina's novel of time-space travel, Fallam's Secret (2003), evokes the physical and emotional landscapes of mountaintop removal in the southern Appalachians. On...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
Introduction Julio Capó, Jr. during a curator's guided tour of the exhibition Queer Miami: A History of LGBTQ Communities, Miami, Florida, June 6, 2019. Photograph by Michele Reese. Courtesy of...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
We can all remember when the Covid reality fully hit, that moment when we were forced to confront the stark news and the hard arrival of abrupt change. I remember...
Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19
Call for Submissions Southern Spaces invites scholars, critics, writers, health care providers, public health practitioners, activists, media producers, community organizers, and patients to submit 1,000-word blog posts, as well as...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Chip Simone on Atlanta and Photography
Atlanta Intersections features Atlantans in conversation with Randy Gue, curator of Modern Political and Historical Collections at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL). In collaboration with Southern...