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

Mars Hill, North Carolina

New Waffle House NC 213 in Mars Hill, Mars Hill, NC, 2004. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Signage on NC 213 in Mars Hill, Mars Hill NC, 2004. Photo courtesy...

Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]

...no evidence of an attempt to coordinate the colors between the old and new parts of the quilt. The eight blocks are arranged unevenly around the center star, and the...

Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895

...a number of beautiful suburban homes have been erected...." ("New Houses Erected" Atlanta Constitution (March 8, 1894), p. 8 ) Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895 Published: 15 January 2008...

Margaret Walker's "Micah" (1970)

...they shall not be remembered in the Book of Life. Micah was a man.   Published in Prophet's for a New Day Published: 11 March 2008 © 2008 Southern Spaces...

Failed Memory Exercise

...flowerbeds For the pumps and grease rack of the new Shell; But begin again, for the dark green Lincoln rises To its lube and crests where Zetty's kitchen was: The...

Brass Knuckles

Something so pleasing in their heft it's easy to forget how my grandfather used them in those days when everybody knew he kept a hundred rolled and rubberbanded in the...

Frank Willis

..."Aaron Canaday," his name alone enough, then a sentence, a song: "Slick was Here-O."   Published in Body of Life (Chicago: Tia Chucha Press, 1996). Published: 10 December 2009 ©...

Like Father

...feel his heartbeat And he cannot hear mine — There is too much flesh between us, Two men in love. Published in Please (Kalamazoo, Michigan: New Issues Poetry & Prose,...

Atlanta's T-SPLOST Referendum and Atlanta Studies

...interdisciplinary, multimedia scholarship on the Atlanta metro region—a collection we have titled "Changing Atlanta." Readers interested in such work might also be interested in the new Atlanta Studies Network, which...