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

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...

Work

...Whir. Fibrous colors drape the architecture of my sleep. Clacking and whirring lift louder and louder to rapture.   Published: 22 June 2006 © 2006 Darnell Arnoult and Southern Spaces...

Ars Poetica #100: I Believe

...voice, and are we not of interest to each other?   Published in American Sublime (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2005). Published: 10 December 2009 © 2009 Elizabeth Alexander and Southern Spaces...

Accidents Happen with Clockwork Regularity

...night and all the hours and minutes within, that help you tell time.   Published in The Boatloads (2008) Published: 24 November 2008 © 2008 Dan Albergotti and Southern Spaces...

Jarvis Branch, North Carolina

...being moved to new location off of the I-26 right-of-way, Jarvis Branch, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Published: 5 June 2007 © 2007 Rob Amberg and Southern Spaces...