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

The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills

...Today, the area has become a prominent suburban enclave near Atlanta's urban center. Celebrated landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted drew the original plans for Druid Hills in the late nineteenth...

The Bulletin—March 5, 2013

...found murdered on Wednesday, February 27, 2013. The body of the Democratic candidate was discovered near the base of the Mississippi River after having been missing for a day. The...

Remnants of Flannery

...http://bittersoutherner.com/flannery-oconnor-walks-among-us-still. And yet, focusing on the entirety of O'Connor's legacy—the full portrait—ignores the ways in which she actually moved through the world. Nearly all of the images in the zine...

Vestibule

...near the end seemed like rising hymnal rhythm, and let me feel how those forgotten words came from somewhere else and meant something. Something, if only to the single moth...

Anniversary

...fountain, which fills the letters of every near-forgotten name, grooves just wide enough to press a finger to. When water's broken water moves to heal. Maybe we're drawn by the...

Birth Right

...nearby states, such as Tennessee, where present laws enable midwives to attend out-of-hospital births. Many of these women are seeking alternative delivery options that enable them to have continuity in...

How I Shed My Skin

...rejected chin-up resilience and vented their rage at African Americans. At the other end of a narrow spectrum, Grimsley has no truck with milquetoast liberalism. As he testifies, "nearly every...