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

From Raw Cotton to Cloth

...a PhD student in the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts at Emory University. His research interests include twentieth-century southern culture, documentary film production, and NASCAR's impact on contemporary American culture....

Saints at the River and Selected Poems

...every burden her life had carried so far, open a room for this new becoming as her body flowed around her man like water. August, 1959: Morning Service   Beside...

The Bulletin—May 29, 2012

...will not approve the plan because it reduces the influence of African American voters across the state. The Alabama Legislative Reapportionment Office details the changes, which reduce the number of...

Birdhouses

...Orion Press, 1964), 103. Rob McDonald, Lexington, Virginia. I am not a birdwatcher, and except for a crow's cawing, I'm hardly able to distinguish one native bird's voice from another...

A Mess of Poke

...sallet ("salad"), grows natively with astonishing vigor across the American South. Despite what Tony Joe suggests, however, pokeweed is not an exclusively rural species, in "the woods and the fields."...

Zircon

...Award in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2013 he received the History Award Medal from the Daughters of the American Revolution. As a recipient of...