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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)

...and cedar, all its innumerable wings, and tomorrow he will be gone from the lumber-yards and the farmhouse windows that semaphore like televisions and the vacant hands of Herbert Lee...

Stones and Shadows

...the driver's seat. "Son," says the voice. "Son, I think it's going to be a good year for you." The car arrives at the house, where my mother is waiting,...

The Boatloads

...like the print of a rubber stamp, rough from reuse. At the bank of the river, hoary old Charon can barely keep up. Each day he has more trips to...

Brass Knuckles

Something so pleasing in their heft it's easy to forget how my grandfather used them in those days when everybody knew he kept a hundred rolled and rubberbanded in the...

Talk Radio, D.C.

...fever, burning and burning. When the doctor left the house, my grandmother snuck in the back door with a croaker sack of mackerel. She wrapped me all up in that...

Prayer of the Backhanded

...think to say, excuse me. Published in Please (Kalamazoo, Michigan: New Issues Poetry & Prose, Western Michigan University, 2009). Published: 4 March 2010 © 2010 Jericho Brown and Southern Spaces...

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...

Glocal Lounge

...1980s, challenges the dominant "fictions of globalization" (such as the global village) and instead uses local and regional sources to produce new narratives and geographic imaginaries by which to historicize...

The Bulletin—November 29, 2012

...border dispute arose when South Carolina bought some land near the border from the North Carolina-based power company Duke Energy. Since the 1990s, geographers, historians, and surveyors have used global...