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

At Liberty (1964)

...ever again.   Published in A Murmuration of Starlings (2008). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 1 April 2008 © 2008 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...

Consolation

...of the bright, unfalling stars. "Consolation" first appeared in Blackbird and was collected in Murder Ballads (Elixir 2005) Published: 15 April 2010 © 2010 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...

Walt Whitman in Alabama

...some new forgotten tongue.   Published in Murder Ballads (2005). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 1 April 2008 © 2008 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...

Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts

Blog Post I recently bought a crumbling old house in a historically gay neighborhood in Roanoke, Virginia. I met my ex-lover in this house five years ago. At the time...

Zircon

...The Road From Gap Creek, was published in 2013. A new novel, Chasing the North Star, is forthcoming in April 2016. In addition, Morgan is author of three nonfiction books, Good Measure: Essays,...

History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street

...Street Shooting Leaves 10 Wounded, 2 Critically, Tourism Image Scarred," NOLA.com, June 30, 2014, http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/06/bourbon_street_gunfight_leaves.html; Helen Freund, "Bourbon Street Shooting Victim, 21, Dies," NOLA.com, July 2, 2014, http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/07/bourbon_street_shooting_victim.html. For many,...

Work

...Lejeune and a year in Irmo, South Carolina. On April Fool's Day 2000, she married a cowboy and moved to middle Tennessee, where her husband encouraged her to ride horses...

"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh

Bangladesh. Map by Mysid. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons license: CC BY-SA 4.0. As the world moves into its fourth year since the advent of COVID-19, the pandemic remains...

Authorship in Africana Studies

...Black/White/Yellow: An Introduction to the Black Body in Europe, eds. Joan Anim-Addo and Suzanne Scafe (Londong: Mango Publishing, 2007): 212–223. Talking on Corners - Speaking in Tongues Exhibition. Artwork by...