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

Retelling Virginia's Migration History

...are biographies that also challenge the conventional trajectories of the “migrant.” In “Greece to Norfolk,” the exhibition tells of Demetrios Karkambasis (renamed James Campas) who comes to the United States...

Mother Jones: Back in Alabama

...be told, it was not the real Mother Jones but a twelve-foot inflatable likeness of her that showed up at the Brookwood Ballpark for a rally in support of striking...

Work

...Louisiana State University Press. What Travels With Us is the winner of the 2005 Weatherford Award from the Appalachian Studies Association and Berea College, as well as the Southern Independent...

The Morning with Many Tongues

...was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry. Hill's poems have appeared in Callaloo, Ploughshares, Pleiades, Crab Orchard Review, DIAGRAM, The Oxford American, Tin House, and other literary journals, and in...

Country Music Scholar

...honky tonk of the oil boom with older Appalachian music Part 4: Malone discusses the commercialization of rural southern music first as “hillbilly” and later as “country” Part 5: Malone discusses relationships...

Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey

...Murder Ballads (2005), and A Murmuration of Starlings (2008). A third volume, Persons Unknown is forthcoming in October 2010. His poems have appeared in various journals, including Blackbird, Diagram, Greensboro...

Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19

...South. We encourage interdisciplinary perspectives, critical approaches to space and place, and work that foregrounds the pandemic perspectives and experiences of BIPOC and other marginalized groups. "Remember," 2021. Collage by...