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

Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander

..."The Mercy," "Six Yellow Stanzas," "Georgia Postcard," "The Dirt Eaters," and "Ars Poetica #100: I Believe." About Elizabeth Alexander Elizabeth Alexander is a poet, essayist, playwright, and teacher born in...

Putting up Beans

FOR HAZEL AND DEJA My cotton-covered lap aproned for canning, summers ago, I snapped green beans for an old lady. Green beans far from French-styled, not even French Canadian, more...

Watching the Surface for a Sign

...from his novel Chattahoochee. Excerpt About Patrick Phillips Patrick Phillips won the 2005 Kate Tufts Discovery Prize for his first book, Chattahoochee, and his second, Boy, was published by the...

Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket

...30,896 prisoners, and spent $15,233 to house an inmate for a year, but the fate of those leaving the prison system was pretty much left to chance. A more compassionate...

Ossabaw Island Flyover

...miles) wide. It is located between latitudes 31° 49.5' and 31° 43.2' N. Of the Georgia barrier islands, Ossabaw is the most geologically unusual. Like the major Georgia islands south...

Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19

...through the use of textual, visual media, archival, and ethnographic materials—including artistic expressions.  The COVID-19 series examines relationships between pandemic public health and specific geographies in the US and global...

Tuscaloosa: Riversong

...of two books of poetry, The Gospel of Barbecue (Kent State University, 2000), which won the 1999 Stan and Tom Wick Prize for Poetry and was the finalist for the...

Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley

...she has been published in journals such as AGNI online, The Believer, Barrelhouse, Blackbird, Black Warrior Review, Copper Nickel, Gulf Coast, and POETRY. As a student at the University of...