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

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...

Negotiating Black Identities

Video   Part 2: Dr. Lacy outlines her sources, methods, and sites of analysis in Prince George's County, MD and Fairfax County, VA Part 3: Dr. Lacy explores the construction...

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...

"Little Switzerland"

...entertaining in every way than all the others. The very best people of Atlanta visit it and the universal exclamation is, 'Oh, how beautiful! How gorgeously grand! I never knew...

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...

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...

Aftermath

...hawk has taken back the air above new grass, and the doe again can hide her young. I can tell you now I crossed that field, weeks before the first...

Three AM and the Stars Were Out

When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another farmer wanting me to lose half a night's sleep and drive some backcountry wash-out for miles, fix what...

California Creek, North Carolina

...always seen it from the viewpoint of walking up there and looking at the mountains. I knew there was a road coming on line, but I had no concept of...