Vestibule
...love. I don't just want to thank her for giving me the trump card — "house of worship" — I hold in every stupid party game that begins, "Where's the...
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
...from “Six Yellow Stanzas,” exploring legibility, estrangement, and connections to New Orleans Part 6: Alexander discusses black migration experience in her family, her use of direct address, and reads from “Georgia...
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...
Watching the Surface for a Sign
...Phillips' use of autobiography and family history, investigation of the natural world, and the legacy of white supremacy in Forsyth County. Part 2: Phillips discusses “Brass Knuckles,” ambivalences of place...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
...30,896 prisoners, and spent $15,233 to house an inmate for a year, but the fate of those leaving the prison system was pretty much left to chance. A more compassionate...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...I'll hear the familiar strains of 'Macarena' wafting from the beer gardens (and I say familiar because they played the blasted song 400 times every night at decibel levels loud...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...well as hunting lodges, a beach house, and unpaved roads. In 1961, after Sandy West inherited the island, she and her husband Clifford West began the Ossabaw Island Project. This...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...The Art of the Unritual in the Greater Caribbean in its early formulation. Highly recommended for ecocritical scholars. Finally, because drama does not get its readerly due and most of...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...range used by the sheriff's deputies. The authorities said they found the gun on the bus, despite the fact that the initial search had turned up nothing. The authorities found...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
..."there are several million ways to murder."1James Baldwin, "We Can Change the Country," in The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings, ed. Randall Kenan (New York: Penguin Random House, 2010), 61....