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

Darkly

...if light swept from the channel or the opposite shore. The sky is empty, and the river's bent like a question too close or too far away to read. "Darkly"...

Glocal Lounge

...site which takes notice of work in critical regionalism, wherever we find it. In the following excerpt from Main Street and Empire (Rutgers, 2012), a study of how the historical...

California Creek, North Carolina

...undercut the highway over time, California Creek, NC, 1998. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Sign placed on the job site by the contractor, Gilbert Southern, encouraging higher quotas in an...

Dirty Little Story

...litter. I take away all the trash I can carry in the bag I've brought for my own picnic waste. But to clean this site would require heavy equipment and...

Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects

...and imagined spaces and places make connections and comparisons between southern regions and/or locales and sites in the wider world use textual, visual media, archival, and ethnographic materials—including artistic expressions—to...

Insistent Traces

Readings https://vimeo.com/134755182 Claudia Emerson reads the untitled opening from Pinion: An Elegy. View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134755765 Claudia Emerson reads the poem "Rent." View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134756419 Claudia Emerson...

Work

Poem This poem was filmed at the Glencoe Mill in Glencoe, North Carolina in Fall 2005 by Chris Simms and Tom Rankin from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke...

The Morning with Many Tongues

...website: www.seanhill.org. Interview with Natasha Trethewey In these excerpts from a December 17, 2008 conversation, Sean Hill talks about sources and influences of the poems in Blood Ties & Brown...