Bear Branch, North Carolina
...for the source of a spring on the highway right-of-way, Bear Branch, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Published: 5 June 2007 © 2007 Rob Amberg and Southern Spaces...
Buckner Gap, North Carolina
...road’s concrete surface being cleaned prior to the highway’s opening, Buckner Gap, NC, 2002. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Published: 5 June 2007 © 2007 Rob Amberg and Southern Spaces...
The Chimney
...against the drying chimney, leaving his long thumbprint swirling. Published in Chattahoochee (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2004). Published: 14 April 2009 © 2009 Patrick Phillips and Southern Spaces...
I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees
...rise in its indifferent passion. Published in Salvation Blues: One Hundred Poems, 1985-2005 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), 8-9. Published: 22 January 2009 © 2009 Rodney Jones and Southern Spaces...
Fall Creek
...her man like water. Published in Raising the Dead (2003). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 6 December 2007 © 2007 Ron Rash and Southern Spaces...
Excerpt from Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968)
...thinking. "I wonder. I wonder." We shall overcome, We shall overcome We shall overcome some day. I WONDER. I really WONDER. Published: 11 March 2008 © 2008 Southern Spaces...
Margaret Walker's "Micah" (1970)
...they shall not be remembered in the Book of Life. Micah was a man. Published in Prophet's for a New Day Published: 11 March 2008 © 2008 Southern Spaces...
Lyrics to Pretty Saro
...Ocoee, on the mount of said brow Where I once loved her dearly and I don't hate her now. Published: 15 April 2004 © 2004 Allen Tullos and Southern Spaces...
Elegy for the Native Guards
...the fort remains, near forty feet high round, unfinished, half-open to the sky, the elements—wind, rain—God's deliberate eye. Published: 10 June 2005 © 2005 Natasha Trethewey and Southern Spaces...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...spit in the scripture's eye do not walk across my water do this in remembrance of me Published: 23 September 2005 © 2005 Honorée Fanonne Jeffers and Southern Spaces...