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

COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance

...numbers of people who survived the acute phase of their infections are affected by long-term sequelae. Perhaps we now know better the enormity and implications of what was missing in...

A Green Democratic Revolution

...majority. The survival of the planet and the conditions that make it habitable is an objective that concerns a great number of people as well as various movements with heterogeneous...

The Change

...way, I was a sharecropper in Willow Springs, North Carolina as were you   and we were proud to be Tsa la gi wishing for winter   so we could...

Off-Season

...Inland Construction. I raised my back wings, those muscles wrought from priming rows, muscles which cradled my ribs and sides. I chucked tools in the flat bed, headed north, to...

#209, Long Meter

...active here.   From Lloyd, Benjamin, The Primitive Hymns, Rocky Mount, North Carolina: The Primitive Hymns Corporation, 1975. Published: 17 August 2010 © 2010 Laurie Kay Sommers and Southern Spaces...

#598, Common Meter

...absent from the flesh,    And present Lord, with thee.   From Lloyd, Benjamin, The Primitive Hymns, Rocky Mount, North Carolina: The Primitive Hymns Corporation, 1975. Published: 17 August 2010...

Homage to Mississippi John Hurt

...on a hill." So they found him on a porch and took him north to become briefly, cogently famous and leave songs — "Louis Collins," "Candy Man," "Make Me a...