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

At Cornwall Furnace

...confluence of the Coosa and Chatooga, mud ebbs from a bed of scoria, slag I can find in channels miles south. Algae homes in its pocks. The friend who has...

Walt Whitman in Alabama

...when he couldn't bring some Southron home. I see him there remembering his poems, his back to the door, singing out to the garden of the world, the tropical spring...

Gone With the Wind

...anymore.   Published in Southern Quarterly 45.1 (Fall 2007): 53-54. Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 7 March 2008 © 2008 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...

Putting up Beans

...Huron I suppose, Tsalagi on the southern side. Holding hard with indexes, thumbs, double-handed popping apart plump green strings fresh from leafy hills in the fields. Bristling with bees and...

Geography

...years: he’s smaller, his voice lost in the distance between us.   3. On the Gulf and Ship Island Line my father and I walk the rails south toward town....

Theories of Time and Space

You can get there from here, though there’s no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you’ve never been. Try this: head south on Mississippi 49, one— by-one mile...

Lafayette, Louisiana images

...that part of south Louisiana settled in the late eighteenth century by French-descended refugees fleeing British rule in Canada. Published: 28 February 2007 © 2007 David Wharton and Southern Spaces...

Shreveport, Louisiana images

...Like so many southern cities, Shreveport is trying to reinvigorate its downtown. RiverView is an ambitious project that will eventually feature an amphitheatre, decorative fountains, and boat docks. Published: 28...

Little Creek, North Carolina

...right-of-way on Little Creek, Little Creek, NC, 1998. Stripped hillside, looking South from Little Creek, Little Creek, NC, 1998. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Power shovel clearing rubble, Little Creek,...

Fort Scott newspapers

...brightest and darkest day which the people of this city ever experienced. During a year of unprecedented plenty the brawn and brain of Southern Kansas has been busy erecting the...