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

Old Elementary

...all but vagrant pigeons. The utter childlessness of the playground fronts it, lifeless swings, foot worn furrows beneath, once slick from use, almost closed over, a cicatrix of dandelions and...

Elegy for the Native Guards

...intone. Only the fort remains, near forty feet high round, unfinished, half-open to the sky, the elements—wind, rain—God's deliberate eye. Map National Park Service Gulf Islands Regional Map Cover Image...

The Morning with Many Tongues

...the anthologies Blues Poems, Gathering Ground, The Ringing Ear, and Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. His first book, Blood Ties & Brown Liquor, was published by...