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

The Bulletin—August 21, 2012

The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...

Welcome!

...our website, updated our audio and video, and significantly expanded our readership. As an online journal working at the intersection of a number of scholarly disciplines, we find ourselves in...

Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference

...the 2014 Callaloo Conference, we have invited distinguished intellectuals and artists to help us return to subjects that we, at our inaugural meeting in New Orleans in March 2008, partially...

North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project

...Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) have launched the North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements project, a database of all known runaway slave ads in North Carolina newspapers between 1751 and...

US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey at Southern Spaces

...https://southernspaces.org/2005/elegy-native-guards. ———. "Geography." January 11, 2011. https://southernspaces.org/2011/geography. ———. "Jake Adam York interviews Natasha Trethewey." June 25, 2010. https://southernspaces.org/2010/jake-adam-york-interviews-natasha-trethewey. ———. "Theories of Time and Space." June 20, 2005. https://southernspaces.org/2005/theories-time-and-space. Interviews Albergotti,...

Country Music Scholar

Video Part 2: Malone discusses enrolling at the University of Texas, the Austin folk revival, and his dissertation, Country Music USA Part 3: Malone discusses variation in country music style, contrasting the...

Antietam

...but that's a lie. Sometimes, at night, I feel the battlefield moving inside of me.   Published in I Was the Jukebox (New York: W.W. Norton, 2010). Published: 22 September...

Another Failed Poem About the Greeks

...Greek, of course, and dead, and somewhere a maiden rattled in her chains.   Published in I Was the Jukebox (New York: W.W. Norton, 2010). Published: 22 September 2011 ©...