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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—November 1, 2012

...changes to the early voting schedule have altered the ways in which African American churches organize their early voting campaigns. According to Susan Saulny of The New York Times, these campaigns...

Mother Jones: Back in Alabama

...coal miners. Roughly two thousand people came out to the event, and many stopped to have their picture taken with "the grand old lady of the labor movement." Present were...

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...and interested readers. Southern Spaces publishes work in a variety of humanities and social science disciplines that represents and analyzes many souths and southern regions, offers critical scrutiny of any...

Untitled Opening from Pinion: An Elegy

  In the dream that recurs, like a bird returning, the place is still as it was—as though they went away, years ago, fully intending to be back by first...

Walt Whitman in Alabama

Maybe on his way to Gadsden, Queen City of the Coosa, to speak with the pilots and inland sailors, to cross the fords Jackson ran with blood or meet the...

An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim

...Jones talks with Natasha Trethewey about the subjects of their poetry. The conversation includes: how writers find ways to get beyond their own experiences; psychological exile from regional homeland; Jones's...

Naming Each Place

...the poem "Runaway." Poem text. Interview with Natasha Trethewey In this interview, conducted on September 5, 2009, during the Decatur (Georgia) Book Festival, Jericho Brown talks with Natasha Trethewey about...

St. Catherines Island Flyover

...the Authors Steve Bransford is an educational analyst for video with University Technology Services at Emory University. He launched his own production company, Terminus Films, in 2001. Anthony (Tony) Martin...