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

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...

Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry

Presentation About the Author John Howard is Emeritus Professor of Arts and Humanities at King's College London. He is interested in the historical production of human differences and their attendant...

Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!

...photograph suggests local black resistance, self reliance, and the ways in which people in Holmes County, Mississippi, guarded their essential and beloved community center. Throughout Freedom Now!, Berger provides revealing context...