Stones and Shadows
...us. The birds watch us. The blade's shadow quietly cuts X from I. Published in The Boatloads (2008) Published: 24 November 2008 © 2008 Dan Albergotti and Southern Spaces...
Heaven
...will be the past. And it will last forever. Published in Boy (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008). Published: 14 April 2009 © 2009 Patrick Phillips and Southern Spaces...
At Sun Ra's Grave
...sounds emerge. Published in A Murmuration of Starlings (2008). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 1 April 2008 © 2008 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...
Chattahoochee (excerpt)
...on the spool, slack as a fallen kite string. Published in Chattahoochee (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2004). Published: 14 April 2009 © 2009 Patrick Phillips and Southern Spaces...
Talk Radio, D.C.
...fever broke and the fish was all cooked. Published in Body of Life (Chicago: Tia Chucha Press, 1996). Published: 10 December 2009 © 2009 Elizabeth Alexander and Southern Spaces...
Ellipsis
...of something sweet, something sour, something always in its place. Published in American Sublime (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2005). Published: 10 December 2009 © 2009 Elizabeth Alexander and Southern Spaces...
Prayer of the Backhanded
...holding nothing tightly Against me and not wrapped In leather, eliminated the air Between itself and my cheek. Make full this dimpled cheek Unworthy of its unfisted print And forgive...
Congregation
...in the other carry everything else he had. Published in Beyond Katrina (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010). Published: 9 September 2010 © 2010 Natasha Trethewey and Southern Spaces...
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
...the potential benefits of Open Access. Because Southern Spaces is an open access journal, we thought that it would be appropriate for us to share the details of a recent legal...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...July 25, 1946. In his Southern Spaces essay "'Holding on to Those Who Can't be Held': Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia," Mark Auslander explores the complexities of this ritual performance....