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

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)....

Putting up Beans

...don’t wear aprons much anymore.   Published in Off Season City Pipe: Work (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2005). Published: 14 October 2010 © 2010 Allison Hedge Coke and Southern Spaces...

Fort Scott newspapers

...brightest and darkest day which the people of this city ever experienced. During a year of unprecedented plenty the brawn and brain of Southern Kansas has been busy erecting the...

Casino, Ponce de Leon Park

...Leon is a private park under city police regulations. No disorderly characters tolerated. Colored persons admitted as servants only." Published: 15 January 2008 © 2008 Sarah Toton and Southern Spaces...

Substantiation

...graves. That a Yazoo City widow found her husband's gone and Lazarus ain't walking back through Eden, Greenwood, Itta Bena. That Jesus Christ ain't come. Every Leflore County lawyer can't...

Stones and Shadows

...you like to live in New York City?" I search for ways to interrupt, to shut him up. But when I look left, he has become just a voice in...

Anniversary

Early, the city's empty, almost soundless, still. The air has a photograph's grain, a mist that's still deciding whether to rise or fall, and again, we're walking down Dexter, drawn...

Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander

...New York City and raised in Washington, D.C. She has published several books of poems, including: The Venus Hottentot (1990), Body of Life (1996), Antebellum Dream Book (2001), and American...