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

Dirty Little Story

...county doesn't take the initiative to help maintain its biggest asset: a beautiful lake. On the other hand are citizens who have so little respect for themselves or one another...

Little Ivy, North Carolina

Little Ivy Church, Mars Hill, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Blueprints for construction of new Little Ivy Church, Mars Hill, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Cemetery...

The Bulletin—August 21, 2012

...havoc on farmers and ranchers across a broad swath of the United States. On Monday the United States Department of Agriculture announced that it would buy $170 million of pork,...

Bunk Richardson

Lynching photograph: February 11, 1906: Gadsden, Alabama The rope grips the iron where the iron bites into its hold. A noose of rust, dried blood. The dew has frozen in...

At Cornwall Furnace

...more. Promises of love and forevers mural its inside above constellations of beer cans and glass, ashes. The lid of sky's diameter remains the same. In water only yards away,...

In the Magic City

      Birmingham The needle floats over and over     the end of Coltrane's "Alabama," channeling in the rush of feet,     of tires wearing down into the asphalt and the...

Gone With the Wind

...he would pray for his parents to pass over his sleep on their way to church, the door whining closed behind them. But all that would come later, after the...

At Liberty (1964)

...have to see it, so he won't have to whisper it, even once, ever again.   Published in A Murmuration of Starlings (2008). Text may vary slightly from the video...