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

At Liberty (1964)

...ever again.   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...

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...

Race

...a poem tells a story, a story about race.   Published in Antebellum Dream Book (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2001). Published: 10 December 2009 © 2009 Elizabeth Alexander 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...

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...