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

Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley

...with lentils, flash bombs, lo-fi, hi-speed. Somewhere is a petition I should be signing. Somewhere a parakeet is driving a tractor, and I am missing it. A pair of scissors...

Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey

Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Trethewey discusses “Signs, Oakvale, Missisippi, 1941” and “Flounder” as well as landscapes in Gulfport and New Orleans Part 3: Trethewey discusses “Monument,” “Elegy for the Native...

"Aint that Something?"

...© Robert Gipe, 2015. Originally published in Trampoline (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2015), 1, 58. This material is used by permission of Ohio University Press, www.ohioswallow.com. "I had had my...

The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron

...poet makes sounds like prayer, but the heron is merely annoyed, stepping into the air and pulling with broad wings. The poet carefully records a sacred text, but the heron...

"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"

Introduction (Given by Margaret Rose Gladney) Minnie Bruce Pratt was born September 12, 1946, in Selma, Alabama, in the hospital closest to her hometown of Centreville. She graduated from Bibb...

Keep Your Eye upon the Scale

...Hall in Onllywyn, South Wales, 1976. Video still from Keep Your Eye upon the Scale, by Tom Hansell, Patricia Beaver, and Angela Wiley. Keep Your Eye upon the Scale opens...

Topeka newspapers

Topeka State Journal, December 5, 1906, "Texans had 'Fun.'"   TEXANS HAD 'FUN' Tried to Lynch Negro on Santa Fe Train No. 17 Cowboys Put Rope Around His Neck Three...