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

New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography

...into the real world; see Malinowski's seminal work, Argonauts of the Western Pacific [London: George Routledge and Sons, 1932]), fieldnotes have become material markers of doing ethnography. Fieldnotes are made...

Tuscaloosa: Riversong

Video https://vimeo.com/126188419 Poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers presents her poem "Tuscaloosa: Riversong," July 29, 2005, beside the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Poem text. Part 2: Jeffers examines the river...

Ossabaw Island Flyover

Video and Essay https://vimeo.com/391985688 Ossabaw Island is a barrier island on the Georgia coast. The island, which trends northeast–southwest, is about 14.5 kilometers (9 miles) long and 10.5 kilometers (6.6...

Shadows along the Waccamaw

Readings Dan Albergotti reads "The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "The Boatloads." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "Accidents Happen with...

A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama

A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama Jake Adam York reads the poem "Gone With the Wind." Jake Adam York reads the poem "At Cornwall Furnace." Jake Adam York reads the...

Watching the Surface for a Sign

Readings Patrick Phillips reads "Brass Knuckles." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads "The Chimney." Poem text. Patrick Phillips reads "The Flood." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads "Heaven." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads an excerpt...

Naming Each Place

Readings Jericho Brown reads the poem "Like Father." Poem text Jericho Brown reads "Prayer of the Backhanded." Poem text Jericho Brown reads the poem "Scarecrow." Poem text Jericho Brown reads...

Returning Home, Saxon Mills

...2011 by The University of Georgia Press. Other recent poetry and prose books include The Dead Father Poems (Horse & Buggy Press, 1999),  The Best of the Kudzu Telegraph (Hub...