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

The Gospel Pool, Short Meter, 444t

...we reach the heav'nly fields Or walk the golden streets. From White, B.F. The Sacred Harp Revised Cooper edition, Samson, Alabama: Sacred Harp Book Co., 2006. Published: 17 August 2010...

Ars Poetica #100: I Believe

...shell that snaps, emptying the proverbial pocketbook. Poetry is what you find in the dirt in the corner, overhear on the bus, God in the details, then only way to...

Margaret Walker's "Micah" (1970)

...they shall not be remembered in the Book of Life. Micah was a man.   Published in Prophet's for a New Day Published: 11 March 2008 © 2008 Southern Spaces...

Georgia Postcard

...kudzu, the mammoth dogwoods, the Christmas tree farm.   Published in Antebellum Dream Book (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2001). Published: 10 December 2009 © 2009 Elizabeth Alexander and Southern Spaces  ...

Letter: Blues

...slate-branched tree sway from the roots — I've got to buy some proper, winter boots. So many boxes! Crates and crates of books. I must get oil soap, bleach, picture...

Love and Death in Mississippi

...legislated and upheld, allowing laws like Mississippi's HB 1523 to remain on the books. At least for now. Given the shifted balance of the Supreme Court, it is my hope...

And the Prize Goes to...

...its contest winner. Journals used in Engelhardt's class, courtesy of the author. Throughout the semester, the class read one to two books weekly (all published after 2010), working collaboratively to...