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

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...site for innovative scholarship by taking advantage of the Internet's capabilities to deliver audio, video, images, text, and data to facilitate new ways of organizing and presenting research. Southern Spaces...

Vestibule

...of skin, but on the grace of the heart beneath. It was the only homily we knew, and our souls were beatified. And if you say sentiment and cliché, then...

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...

Submission Guidelines

...of specific texts, but we also welcome unsolicited submissions from new and seasoned scholars with expertise and interest in the following areas of inquiry: geography, southern studies, regional studies, women's, gender,...

Aftermath

...hawk has taken back the air above new grass, and the doe again can hide her young. I can tell you now I crossed that field, weeks before the first...

Three AM and the Stars Were Out

When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another farmer wanting me to lose half a night's sleep and drive some backcountry wash-out for miles, fix what...

California Creek, North Carolina

...always seen it from the viewpoint of walking up there and looking at the mountains. I knew there was a road coming on line, but I had no concept of...

Sprinkle Creek, North Carolina

...direct, with the new Visitor Center on the top, Sprinkle Creek, NC, 1995. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Lucille Babbitt: "I don't think it was God's will that it be...

Little Creek, North Carolina

...Little Creek, which was removed for I-26, Little Creek, NC 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Grave diggers constructing new coffins for unidentified remains at the Woody Family Cemetery, Little...

Atlanta’s Tumultuous Fifties Fifty Years Later

Video Part 2: Dr. Crimmins discusses the Lane Brothers photograph collection, highlighting Atlanta's physical and cultural landscapes Part 3: Dr. Holmes examines how voter registration and Atlanta politics play into...