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

Rent

...lifetime. That was true. It stood those years where it yet stands, where you remained without me, living, you would claim, another, finer life, nothing the same. But I imagine...

The Gospel Pool, Short Meter, 444t

Beside the gospel pool, Appointed for the poor, From time to time my helpless soul Has waited for a cure. The hill of Zion yields A thousand sacred sweets, Before...

Homage to Mississippi John Hurt

...town Avalon from one of your songs, and could not find it after all that time, so it seemed that you were never there. And what was there? Kudzu, polio,...

Accidents Happen with Clockwork Regularity

...has happened, something final. Already the ants are at their efficient work, twisting the beetle slowly from side to side like waves rocking an empty boat. The bells keep time,...

Leavenworth newspaper

Leavenworth Times. Untitled. October 30, 1887. "There is no State in the Union where a colored man has a better [hope] to ask for a solid Republican support than in...

Emporia newspapers

The Emporia Times and Emporia Republican. "Nigger Assaults White Woman." July 14, 1905.   NIGGER ASSAULTS WHITE WOMAN HOUSE OF MRS. LUSK ENTERED — NIGGER WAS CAPTURED AND IDENTIFIED BY...

Early Roller Coaster Patents

...a ride that was operated for the public, construction of a ride at Ponce de Leon Springs (Georgia) was reported in the Augusta Chronicle and the New York Times ["Sliding...

At Liberty (1961)

...everyone will say the congressman pulled in behind him so he gets out yelling Herbert Lee I'm not messing with you this time and his affidavit will say Lee had...