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

They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama

Essay On a spring evening in 1911, a mob of about fifty white men in the small city of Livermore, Kentucky, lynched Will Potter on the stage of the local...

Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley

...sang it this way this time, you got to sing it the same way the next time. Mitchell: Well not all the time. Jim Bunkley: Well, just whichever way you...

Covid Light and Darkness Alike

...to get back to making pictures. I had been washing my hands incessantly as I drove from North Carolina to Mississippi, always keeping sanitizer close, trying to puzzle out how...

Sapelo Island Flyover

...reveals sediments from older environments, such as hundreds-year-old relict marshes exposed along Cabretta Beach on Sapelo's northeastern edge. Sapelo Island in the Sea Islands Watershed. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Creative...

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

...Print by Dawoud Bey (American, born 1953). San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Accessions Committee Fund purchase. Image © Dawoud Bey. In the almost 160 years since the legal dissolution...

Untitled Opening from Pinion: An Elegy

...weaves tight through the stalled warp of the hayrake. The house rises, vacant, the porch and front door lost behind a dense wall of privet I part and pass through....

Lyrics to Pretty Saro

...Ocoee, on the mount of said brow Where I once loved her dearly and I don't hate her now. Published: 15 April 2004 © 2004 Allen Tullos and Southern Spaces...

Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road

...that silence would be lost, would be written over leaving the road a by-way, a dead end with a plaque where people hold photographs to the air so they can...