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

The Bulletin—February 11, 2013

...installed during these recent repairs detected a power anomaly and triggered the shutdown. Entergy continues to investigate the "root cause" of the incident. Meanwhile, Sara Kugler noted on MSNBC because the Superdome...

Submission Process

...research and quality of writing? Would the piece require a substantial amount of editing/reworking? Fit for the journal: Does the piece use a spatial approach to its subject? Does it...

The Bulletin—March 5, 2013

...case is groundbreaking because the mother did not undergo prenatal care to prevent her baby’s infection. The baby, now two-and-a-half years old, received antiretroviral drugs thirty hours after birth. The...

Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions

...that emphasize spatial interpretation and utilize digital media. Southern Spaces welcomes submissions that: critically and creatively examine real and imagined spaces and places make connections and comparisons between southern regions...

Knoxville, Tennessee images

Knoxville, Tennessee: The Tennessee River from the South Gay Street Bridge Pedestrian A pedestrian trudges up West Main Street toward the Knox County Courthouse. Published: 28 February 2007 © 2007...

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...

Vestibule

...love. I don't just want to thank her for giving me the trump card — "house of worship" — I hold in every stupid party game that begins, "Where's the...

Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander

...from “Six Yellow Stanzas,” exploring legibility, estrangement, and connections to New Orleans Part 6: Alexander discusses black migration experience in her family, her use of direct address, and reads from “Georgia...

Putting up Beans

...don’t wear aprons much anymore.   Published in Off Season City Pipe: Work (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2005). Published: 14 October 2010 © 2010 Allison Hedge Coke and Southern Spaces...

Watching the Surface for a Sign

...Phillips' use of autobiography and family history, investigation of the natural world, and the legacy of white supremacy in Forsyth County. Part 2: Phillips discusses “Brass Knuckles,” ambivalences of place...