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

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...

Sweep

...it comes, and comes on.   Published in Salvation Blues: One Hundred Poems, 1985-2005 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), 4-5. Published: 22 January 2009 © 2009 Rodney Jones and Southern Spaces...

Runaway

...deal with the dark. Published in Please (Kalamazoo, Michigan: New Issues Poetry & Prose, Western Michigan University, 2009). Published: 4 March 2010 © 2010 Jericho Brown and Southern Spaces  ...