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

Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey

Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Trethewey discusses “Signs, Oakvale, Missisippi, 1941” and “Flounder” as well as landscapes in Gulfport and New Orleans Part 3: Trethewey discusses “Monument,” “Elegy for the Native...

Heaven

...together. Everyone we ever loved, and lost, and must remember. It will be the past. And it will last forever.   Published in Boy (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008)....

The US South and the 2008 Election

...Obama's election as a sign that the GOP, much to its own detriment, has ceased to be a national party. Good evidence for such is the loss of Republican members...

From Raw Cotton to Cloth

Introduction Opened in 1968, the Katherine plant was the last of four Springs cotton mills operating in Chester, South Carolina. Hughes and Hall captured these images shortly before the plant...

Bricking the Church

Poem Robert Morgan reads his poem "Bricking the Church," 2014. Bricking the Church At the foot of Meetinghouse Hill where once the white chapel pointed among junipers and pulled a...

The Bulletin—February 11, 2013

..."is both a reminder of the city’s revival after Hurricane Katrina, and the suffering and loss that happened under its roof during and after the storm," the outage brought to...

Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm

Photographing Andalusia After receiving permission from the Flannery O'Connor-Andalusia Foundation to visit and photograph, in April, 2007 I went to Milledgeville from my home in South Carolina. Andalusia is located...

Atlanta’s Tumultuous Fifties Fifty Years Later

Video Part 2: Dr. Crimmins discusses the Lane Brothers photograph collection, highlighting Atlanta's physical and cultural landscapes Part 3: Dr. Holmes examines how voter registration and Atlanta politics play into...