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

Sweep

...Hammond, who will think too slowly and turn his Air Force jet into the Arizona desert, and Don Appleton, who will drive out on a country road for a shotgun...

Atchison newspaper

...the action as disgraceful, and within a few weeks the entire affair will be forgotten. This is a way Americans have. The pulpits will ring with denunciation, and the people...

Lawrence newspaper

...a family affair, and if they don’t keep their hands out of it, Kansas is likely to back Leavenworth up to sail in and do it again. Kansas demands for...

Junction City newspaper

Junction City Tribune. "The Exodus." May 1, 1879. "Beneath the surface of this whole affair, however, there is a quiet practical joke. For years the north has complained that the...

Lyrics to Pretty Saro

As sung by Cas Wallin, Madison County, North Carolina When I first come to this country in eighteen and forty nine I saw many fair lovers, but I never saw...

Tuscaloosa: Riversong

...Tuscaloosa sleeps in the water sucks gore from his lungs strips the green crucifix roars the gumbo scream Tuscaloosa Tuscaloosa Tuscaloosa Trane's Alabama a Creole agony blood slung through air...

At Sun Ra's Grave

...Christ, rasied from shards now glows, its angle an aftermath. But the rush, the wind's still here. Wet night air spreads name from name, pulling the sheets from his grip,...

Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road

...that silence would be lost, would be written over leaving the road a by-way, a dead end with a plaque where people hold photographs to the air so they can...

The Bulletin—April 24, 2013

...half-mile radius of the blast. The cause of the blast is still unknown. The plant, which is owned by Adair Inc.'s West Fertilizer Company, produced anhydrous ammonia (a liquid crop...

Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment

...Director, Min. Cassandra Greene, Director Ms. Hattie Lawson, Chair, Athens Area Human Relations Council Reenactment Timeline 3:00 p.m. - Leave First African Baptist Church for visitation of the Malcom and Dorsey gravesites. 4:45...