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

Off-Season

...you said I couldn’t be.   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...

Making History

...pull out spoon after spoon after spoon.   Published in I Was the Jukebox (New York: W.W. Norton, 2010). Published: 22 September 2011 © 2011 Sandra Beasley and Southern Spaces...

Another Failed Poem About the Greeks

...somewhere a maiden rattled in her chains.   Published in I Was the Jukebox (New York: W.W. Norton, 2010). Published: 22 September 2011 © 2011 Sandra Beasley and Southern Spaces...

#598, Common Meter

...with thee.   From Lloyd, Benjamin, The Primitive Hymns, Rocky Mount, North Carolina: The Primitive Hymns Corporation, 1975. Published: 17 August 2010 © 2010 Laurie Kay Sommers and Southern Spaces...

The Heavenly Port, Common Meter, 378t

...eye……   From White, B.F. The Sacred Harp Revised Cooper edition, Samson, Alabama: Sacred Harp Book Co., 2006. Published: 17 August 2010 © 2010 Laurie Kay Sommers and Southern Spaces...