Excerpt from Eudora Welty's "Where is the Voice Coming From?" (1963)
...paved driveway, yes sir. . . . I was on top of the world myself. For once. I stepped to the edge of his light there, where he's laying...
At Sun Ra's Grave
Birmingham, 2001 Now our god's dismantled, iron arms, iron hands now laid away, vacant head beside his vacant feet. Vulcan, God of All the Fire That Sleeps in Mountains now...
Stones and Shadows
...ask why. "The mausoleum keeps expanding," he says, without irony. "Have you ever been to a filing? Your mother and I went to our first last week." I give him...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...finally queering or not queering. In this way, to queer is to exist as subjects in the transitive space of choice between doing and not doing. The question shifts from...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
Review Bohemia Spillway New Distributary, Mardi Gras Pass, March 2012. Photograph by the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation. Courtesy of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation. A curious thing happened in Louisiana...
Searcy County Livestock Auction
Video and Essay Searcy County. A short video by Noam Osband, 2012. Searcy County is a sparsely populated area in the Ozark region on US Highway 65 between Little Rock,...
Readership Reports and the Benefits of Open Access Publishing
...for "North Carolina: A State of Shock" by Dan T. Carter, 2013. Courtesy of Southern Spaces. There are several ways in which we take advantage of the accessibility of our...
Bear Branch, North Carolina
...for the source of a spring on the highway right-of-way, Bear Branch, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Published: 5 June 2007 © 2007 Rob Amberg and Southern Spaces...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...the way "southern literature" would be both marketed and received in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This quietly ambitious study reminds us that we cannot understand the phenomenon of nineteenth-century...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...way it did provide a glimpse into how the future of the South might play out, with or without separation." He writes on, summarizing his lessons from the three Georgia...