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

Watching the Surface for a Sign

Readings Patrick Phillips reads "Brass Knuckles." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads "The Chimney." Poem text. Patrick Phillips reads "The Flood." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads "Heaven." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads an excerpt...

An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim

Readings Rodney Jones reads the poem "Failed Memory Exercise." Poem text. Rodney Jones reads the poem "I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees." Poem text. Rodney Jones reads the poem "Homage To...

Naming Each Place

Readings Jericho Brown reads the poem "Like Father." Poem text Jericho Brown reads "Prayer of the Backhanded." Poem text Jericho Brown reads the poem "Scarecrow." Poem text Jericho Brown reads...

John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943

...lack, then we will have lost the powerful stories of lives lived against the grain of official history, against the will of white oppressors. About the Author John Howard teaches...

Letter: Blues

...hooks. A sidewalk crack in Washington, D.C. Will feed my city dirt roots. Wait for me.   Published in The Venus Hottentot (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1990). Published: 10...

Packin' Four Corner Nabs

...butter from packin’ four corner nabs even after the shower down spot a teamster card on the visor   Published in Off-Season City Pipe: Work (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2005)....

Putting up Beans

...don’t wear aprons much anymore.   Published in Off Season City Pipe: Work (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2005). Published: 14 October 2010 © 2010 Allison Hedge Coke and Southern Spaces...

Fort Scott newspapers

...brightest and darkest day which the people of this city ever experienced. During a year of unprecedented plenty the brawn and brain of Southern Kansas has been busy erecting the...