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

#209, Long Meter

1) We are a garden walled around,    Chosen and made peculiar ground,    A little spot enclosed by grace    Out of the world’s wild wilderness.   2) Like...

Birdhouses

...year-round. My younger daughter, Emma, startled us last spring when she reached upward as a sparrow shot from an oak tree, her hands cupped as if to catch rain, and...

Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature

...in In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983), 43. While Walker does not identify herself as "southern," she also does not cede ground. In response...

Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word

Interview Part 2: Morgan reads “Backwater” and discusses his history of coming to terms with his origins Part 3: Morgan reads “Heaven” and discusses the place of nostalgia in his poetry Part...