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

Montgomery, Alabama images

Montgomery, Alabama: Intersection of Bibb and Commerce Streets Confederate Memorial, Alabama State Capitol Grounds The house in which Jefferson Davis and his family lived in is now preserved as "the...

Piedmont Blues

Figure 2.1: The Piedmont. Map courtesy of  James W. Clay and Paul D. Escott, Land of the South (Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, 1989.) Although the Piedmont plateau stretches from New...

At Sun Ra's Grave

...hat and bedsheet robe, and even the house is gone, the room where you played by radio light, slowly casting off your names. * Now derelicts keep the rails from...

The Crowd He Becomes

...the paperboys, ready to throw when the dark is right. See him Christmas, few years back, outside the preacher's house, thin fuse of cigarette, newspaper spread on the bus protests....

Darkly

...from there to the shore and then as far upriver as you can see. Here it's only open water, empty sky, two ends of road no one uses, landfill on...

Zircon

...where spiders hide in rotting duff. Acknowledgements "Zircon", from DARK ENERGY by Robert Morgan, copyright © 2015 by Robert Morgan. Used by permission of Viking Books, an imprint of Penguin...

Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered

...24, 2015, Atlanta, Georgia. Transcription by author. This first post shares McDaniels's vision of a multi-vocal conversation; between artifact and natural resource, between history and present-day, between historian and community,...

Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"

...had traveled to attend Camp Fasola Europe and the Poland Sacred Harp Convention, and the metaphorical space Sacred Harp singing itself had traveled to make these events possible. Ties between...