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

2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading

Greetings by Natasha Trethewey Natasha Trethewey introduces the 2014 Callaloo Conference. I am Natasha Trethewey, the Director of the Creative Writing Program and I’m pleased to welcome you to this...

Dirty Little Story

...But I wonder if any of them say more about us.  About the Author A native of Georgia, Rheta Grimsley Johnson grew up in Alabama where she attended Auburn University....

They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama

Essay On a spring evening in 1911, a mob of about fifty white men in the small city of Livermore, Kentucky, lynched Will Potter on the stage of the local...

Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!

...Press of Mississippi, 1995), Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible (New York: W.W. Norton, 2000), and One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia (Chapel Hill: University...

Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020

...in Georgia, which is available to watch for free. https://vimeo.com/470999167 Trailer for Suppressed: The Fight to Vote, July 23, 2019. Trailer by Brave New Films. Courtesy of Brave New Films....

Transcript: "Lucy Mae Blues" by Cecil Barfield

"Lucy Mae Blues" by Cecil Barfield, recorded in Plains, Georgia, 1976. Courtesy of George Mitchell and Fat Possum Records. From "Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley" by Steve Bransford. [Acoustic...

Transcript: Interview with Precious Bryant

Interview excerpt in which Precious Bryant discusses some of her earliest musical experiences. Recorded by Steve Bransford in Waverly Hall, Georgia, 2003. Courtesy of Steve Bransford. From "Blues in the...