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

Baton Rouge, Louisiana images

...Tourist on Docked Riverboat Modern-day riverboats, decorated like their nineteenth-century predecessors, transport tourists up and down the Mississippi.   Published: 28 February 2007 © 2007 David Wharton and Southern Spaces...

In Memory Hill Cemetery

...two graves cloud to one.   Published in Blood Ties and Brown Liquor (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008). Published: 27 February 2009 © 2009 Sean Hill and Southern Spaces...

Nigger Street 1937

...as the congregation     rises.   Published in Blood Ties and Brown Liquor (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008). Published: 27 February 2009 © 2009 Sean Hill and Southern Spaces...

Just as Sure

...own level where it settles.   Published in Blood Ties and Brown Liquor (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008). Published: 27 February 2009 © 2009 Sean Hill and Southern Spaces...

Bunk Richardson

...weaker, all night long.   Published in Murder Ballads (2005). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 7 March 2008 © 2008 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...

Packin' Four Corner Nabs

...a teamster card on the visor   Published in Off-Season City Pipe: Work (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2005). Published: 14 October 2010 © 2010 Allison Hedge Coke and Southern Spaces...

Consolation

...of the bright, unfalling stars. "Consolation" first appeared in Blackbird and was collected in Murder Ballads (Elixir 2005) Published: 15 April 2010 © 2010 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...

Old Elementary

...released, and he was kept after, inside, in there, for punishment, in there for some small forgotten thing.   Published: 26 October 2009 © 2009 Claudia Emerson and Southern Spaces...

Untitled Opening from Pinion: An Elegy

...I have come home for this.   Published in Pinion: An Elegy (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002). Published: 26 October 2009 © 2009 Claudia Emerson and Southern Spaces...

Aftermath

...the blunt edge of a practiced tongue.   Published in Late Wife (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005). Published: 26 October 2009 © 2009 Claudia Emerson and Southern Spaces...