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

Dirty Little Story

Essay Map of Fish Trap Hollow and northeastern Mississippi, 2012. ©OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA. The visitors are from Virginia, a state that simply sounds clean. There are two young children and a...

US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey at Southern Spaces

...Reclaim." January 22, 2009. https://southernspaces.org/2009/absence-i-know-i-wont-reclaim. Phillips, Patrick. "Watching the Surface for a Sign." April 14, 2009. https://southernspaces.org/2009/watching-surface-sign. York, Jake Adam. "A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama." March 7, 2008. https://southernspaces.org/2008/field-guide-northeast-alabama....

Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey

...she has published two pieces, Elegy for the Native Guards and Theories of Time and Space. About Jake Adam York Raised near Gadsden in northeast Alabama by his steelworker father...

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To subscribe to our monthly email announcements, click here. Email Address: SEditor@Emory.edu Fax Number: 404 727 0827 Mailing Address: Southern Spaces Robert W. Woodruff Library Emory University 540 Asbury Circle Atlanta,...

Call for Submissions: Music and the US South

...projects may take any of a number of forms. Please contact us if you have any questions about our process, infrastructure, or other aspects of digital project publishing. Southern Spaces editors are...

The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]

...relatively close together when cutting the fabric, but the claim of "no waste in material" is not entirely accurate. Making a quilt can express thrift in a number of ways,...

Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]

...would likely have made this number if she had envisioned this project from the start. Finally, although red fabrics appear in both the star and the crazy blocks, there is...

Failed Memory Exercise

...A place I can't forget, since its beams were ripped out, Numbered, and shipped east to some resurrection bistro Where one can cop a decent blintz and expresso now That...

Red J. Store on Carroll Street, ca. 1910–1920

...using the collection's browse function, I discovered a number of striking images of my neighborhood, including an unattributed photograph from the early twentieth century depicting a store called Red J....