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

On Fair Use

...of a particular work may be considered fair, such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research." The limits of fair use doctrine continue to spark controversy as academic...

Bear Branch, North Carolina

Sign advertising new motel at Exit 3, Bear Branch, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Unidentified people sitting on their porch at Bear Branch before they have to vacate...

Scarecrow

...us, Father, the use of our hands. Published in Please (Kalamazoo, Michigan: New Issues Poetry & Prose, Western Michigan University, 2009). Published: 4 March 2010 © 2010 Jericho Brown and...

Work

...life. But fate may lead you down a surprising path. One day you may wake up and find you had more choices than you knew. You leave your bed, your...

Geography

...of books beneath his arm. It’s 1971, the last year we’re still together. My mother and I travel this road, each week, to meet him— I-10 from Mississippi to New...

The Bulletin—September 4, 2012

The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...

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...