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

Work

...months between Lejeune and college. After two babies. Worked to the tune of minimum wage, ten-hour days, and culled furniture. Once I went into the deafening grind and buzz of...

Walt Whitman in Alabama

...to walk off or sing unwritten, maybe when the open road opened on mockingbirds two and two— no one knows, though the stories have him here recapturing Attalla, shaking poems...

Retelling Virginia's Migration History

...the 1950s came to go to college. “You acclimate to this country,” says Fu, “contribute to it, but also you keep your heritage alive.”   David Hunter Strother, Sketches of...

The Crowd He Becomes

...who did it and the lawyer says I'll tell you who. Who is everyone who talks of niggers. Who is everyone who slurs to his neighbors and his sons. Everyone...

Geography

...Poetry. In 2003, her second collection Bellocq's Ophelia won the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize and was named a Notable Book by the American Library Association. She...

Congregation

...great machines. Riding the prow of the cleaners, or walking ahead, he watched for carcasses—chickens mostly, maybe some cats or dogs. No one said remains. No one had to. It...

The Bulletin—June 19, 2013

...to close most of the state's abortion clinics, to a special session of the state legislature's docket. The bill requires abortion-providing facilities to comply with the standards of an ambulatory surgical...