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

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

...think to say, excuse me. Published in Please (Kalamazoo, Michigan: New Issues Poetry & Prose, Western Michigan University, 2009). Published: 4 March 2010 © 2010 Jericho Brown and Southern Spaces...

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...

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....

Grapefruit Workers in Florida, January 1937

...more nostalgic images of small farmers in the US South during the 1930s. Arthur Rothstein seems to have taken a particular interest in migrant workers during his time in Winter Haven and Fort...