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

The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills

...Today, the area has become a prominent suburban enclave near Atlanta's urban center. Celebrated landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted drew the original plans for Druid Hills in the late nineteenth...

The Bulletin—March 5, 2013

...found murdered on Wednesday, February 27, 2013. The body of the Democratic candidate was discovered near the base of the Mississippi River after having been missing for a day. The...

Remnants of Flannery

...http://bittersoutherner.com/flannery-oconnor-walks-among-us-still. And yet, focusing on the entirety of O'Connor's legacy—the full portrait—ignores the ways in which she actually moved through the world. Nearly all of the images in the zine...

Vestibule

...near the end seemed like rising hymnal rhythm, and let me feel how those forgotten words came from somewhere else and meant something. Something, if only to the single moth...

Covid Light and Darkness Alike

...exactly where I was standing when it all sunk in. I was photographing in Mississippi in early March 2020, on spring break from teaching at Duke, my near annual pilgrimage...

Reconsidering Appalachian Studies

...movement by educating generation after generation of students and have been doing so for nearly forty years. We have attained about ten graduating cohorts of undergrads so far. This is...

The Morning with Many Tongues

...Liquor. This interview took place on the porch of Andalusia, the home of Flannery O'Connor near Milledgeville, Georgia. Part 2: Hill discusses repetition in Blood Ties, his discovery of Milledgeville, “The...

Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey

...she has published two pieces, Elegy for the Native Guards and Theories of Time and Space. About Jake Adam York Raised near Gadsden in northeast Alabama by his steelworker father...