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

Tuscaloosa: Riversong

...My tongue is strong and hides me. I cannot die. They do not see me walking on my river, my teeth biting at early chains. They only know they choke...

Substantiation

...Till watches, enwreathes their broods. Milam wakes up early each morning when the riot in the pear trees begins, starlings wolf-whistling for food, or just repeating what they've heard. One...

Anniversary

Early, the city's empty, almost soundless, still. The air has a photograph's grain, a mist that's still deciding whether to rise or fall, and again, we're walking down Dexter, drawn...

Rose Library Highlights: Amos Kennedy, Jr.

...of underreported black church burnings in southern states during the early 1990s. During his recent visit, I had the opportunity to interview Kennedy. As we chatted, Kennedy described his relationship to...

And the Prize Goes to...

...scholarly writing. Students worked with Allison Wright—who sifts through some nine thousand online submissions each year as the managing editor for Virginia Quarterly Review—to develop an early-semester workshop on strategies and...

The Bulletin—July 2, 2013

...and the jury sentenced her to die by lethal injection. Governor Rick Perry has presided over 301 of Texas's executions, which make up nearly forty percent of total US executions....

The Bulletin—April 3, 2013

...wife, Estelle, and an early unpublished story. According to Reuters, some of the items were found on the Faulkner family's Virginia property. According to an article in The New York Times,...