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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

...weaves tight through the stalled warp of the hayrake. The house rises, vacant, the porch and front door lost behind a dense wall of privet I part and pass through....

Lyrics to Pretty Saro

...mine I viewéd all around me, I found I was quite alone And me a poor stranger and a long way from home My true love she won't have me...

Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road

...that silence would be lost, would be written over leaving the road a by-way, a dead end with a plaque where people hold photographs to the air so they can...

The Bulletin—July 2, 2013

...dose of pentobarbital and died at 6:37 p.m. on June 26, 2013. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned her conviction in 2001, but McCarthy lost during a retrial in...

Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey

Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Trethewey discusses “Signs, Oakvale, Missisippi, 1941” and “Flounder” as well as landscapes in Gulfport and New Orleans Part 3: Trethewey discusses “Monument,” “Elegy for the Native...

Heaven

...together. Everyone we ever loved, and lost, and must remember. It will be the past. And it will last forever.   Published in Boy (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008)....

The US South and the 2008 Election

...Obama's election as a sign that the GOP, much to its own detriment, has ceased to be a national party. Good evidence for such is the loss of Republican members...