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

Local Color

...its core texts embody. Local color fiction stresses isolation and otherness, but also makes, however uneasily, a case for the nation's ability to reconcile and accept divergent regional identities. Local...

Insistent Traces

Readings https://vimeo.com/134755182 Claudia Emerson reads the untitled opening from Pinion: An Elegy. View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134755765 Claudia Emerson reads the poem "Rent." View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134756419 Claudia Emerson...

Geography

...Emory University. Her first collection, Domestic Work, won the 1999 Cave Canem prize, a 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize, and the 2001 Lillian Smith Award for...

Theories of Time and Space

Video Theories of Time and Space You can get there from here, though there’s no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you’ve never been. Try this: head south...

New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography

...are walled rooms beneath raised houses, filled with industrial machines lost to history, cable boxes and plugs, and regular tools (see footnote six). Shed, Chauvin, Louisiana, June 2013. Photograph by...

Mother Jones: Back in Alabama

...prison than out. "The most dangerous woman in America," one prosecutor called her; "She is a wonder," her friend Carl Sandberg wrote; "The walking wrath of God," Upton Sinclair declared....

Tuscaloosa: Riversong

...Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam (Crown, 2001), Callaloo, Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (Warner/Aspect, 2000), Indiana Review, The Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts...

Ossabaw Island Flyover

...of it—Cumberland, Jekyll, St. Simons, Sapelo, and St. Catherines—Ossabaw is a composite island, in which sediments from Pleistocene and Holocene shorelines are directly adjacent or superimposed. However, sediments of the...

A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama

A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama Jake Adam York reads the poem "Gone With the Wind." Jake Adam York reads the poem "At Cornwall Furnace." Jake Adam York reads the...

Watching the Surface for a Sign

Readings Patrick Phillips reads "Brass Knuckles." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads "The Chimney." Poem text. Patrick Phillips reads "The Flood." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads "Heaven." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads an excerpt...