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

Heaven

...will be the past. And it will last forever.   Published in Boy (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008). Published: 14 April 2009 © 2009 Patrick Phillips and Southern Spaces...

Chattahoochee (excerpt)

...on the spool, slack as a fallen kite string.   Published in Chattahoochee (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2004). Published: 14 April 2009 © 2009 Patrick Phillips and Southern Spaces...

Race

...a poem tells a story, a story about race.   Published in Antebellum Dream Book (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2001). Published: 10 December 2009 © 2009 Elizabeth Alexander and Southern Spaces...

Talk Radio, D.C.

...fever broke and the fish was all cooked.   Published in Body of Life (Chicago: Tia Chucha Press, 1996). Published: 10 December 2009 © 2009 Elizabeth Alexander and Southern Spaces...

Letter: Blues

...my city dirt roots. Wait for me.   Published in The Venus Hottentot (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1990). Published: 10 December 2009 © 2009 Elizabeth Alexander and Southern Spaces...

Ellipsis

...of something sweet, something sour, something always in its place.   Published in American Sublime (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2005). Published: 10 December 2009 © 2009 Elizabeth Alexander and Southern Spaces...

Prayer of the Backhanded

...think to say, excuse me. Published in Please (Kalamazoo, Michigan: New Issues Poetry & Prose, Western Michigan University, 2009). Published: 4 March 2010 © 2010 Jericho Brown and Southern Spaces...

Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border

...as one of the most sophisticated historical studies of law enforcement in the U.S. See Eric H. Monkkonen, Police in Urban America, 1860–1920 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981). Nevertheless,...