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

LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72

Atlanta rap artist Jack Preston takes the stage at Gallery 72, Atlanta, Georgia, October 18, 2015. Photograph by Clint Fluker. Courtesy of LiFT Art Salon. In collaboration with ELEVATE, Atlanta's annual...

A Mess of Poke

...Adams, Sauteeing poke in bacon grease, Decatur, Georgia, 2010. Allison O. Adams, Poke scrambled with eggs, Decatur, Georgia, 2010. After the last boiling, I noted that the greens were beginning...

Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters

...York and Atlanta, most others ("The Displaced Person," "Greenleaf," and "The Enduring Chill") describe " atypical life" on working farms like Andalusia. Writing Rural Georgia O'Connor makes rural Georgia the...

Georgia Postcard

...Highway Church of God: "You come in here and pray." Roadkill, and blackbirds that pick at it, Chain gangs, and fat scarlet clover in rippling flocks — a North Georgia...

The Makers of the Sacred Harp

...England, nineteenth-century Georgia, and among contemporary singers. One remarkable story concerns the three Lancaster sisters of Georgia, all singers and fine Sacred Harp composers, whose family music history goes back...

Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition

...a March 15, 2008 tornado in Atlanta, Georgia, when a variant of the spray-painted code was used sparingly in the affected Cabbagetown neighborhood,and in 2008 when Hurricane Ike hit the...