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

Murray Mountain, North Carolina

...for a time and it's going to be gone. And now it is because the Welcome Center is right over here and it's lit up and is never going to...

Emporia newspapers

...large nigger. She instantly screamed as a result of her fright. When she did so the nigger struck her in the center of the forehead with something in his hand...

Memphis, Tennessee images

Memphis, Tennessee: The Mississippi River In the distance is the Interstate 40 Mississippi River Bridge. The "bridge" entering the picture from the upper right is actually the tramway that runs...

Tuscaloosa: Riversong

...water climb higher than before, and in the spring the people of the town visit mounds filled with bones. They buy feathers and skin painted bright colors, or whistles drilled...

At Sun Ra's Grave

...broken mouth. A sleep curls there till the righteous sounds emerge.   Published in A Murmuration of Starlings (2008). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 1 April...

I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees

...suppurating in secret weeds and the flies, who are marvelous because their appetite is our revulsion. Let the laborers go on. Right now I wish I could admire the trees...

Six Yellow Stanzas

1. Didn't know what to do at the Boule Ball, so I put on a Mardi Gras mask of a smile and watched those Creoles second-line, light yellow faces, bright...

Anniversary

...and let this memory be a kind of no, polished now with all its bright and all its dark, and maybe the rain will fall like the water of this...

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)....