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

Rent

...it— before going on to another survival.   Published in Late Wife (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005). Published: 26 October 2009 © 2009 Claudia Emerson and Southern Spaces...

Substantiation

...they fly.   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...

The Crowd He Becomes

...arrive, the state patrol arrives with bayonets instead of hoses, bayonets instead of dogs, while congregants arrive between firemen and plainclothes Klansmen and the children, the children arrive and depart,...

Vestibule

...the darkened air of that chapel, fluttered its dusty wings around our heads.   Published in The Boatloads (2008) Published: 24 November 2008 © 2008 Dan Albergotti and Southern Spaces...

Georgia Postcard

...kudzu, the mammoth dogwoods, the Christmas tree farm.   Published in Antebellum Dream Book (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2001). Published: 10 December 2009 © 2009 Elizabeth Alexander and Southern Spaces  ...

Frank Willis

...then a sentence, a song: "Slick was Here-O."   Published in Body of Life (Chicago: Tia Chucha Press, 1996). Published: 10 December 2009 © 2009 Elizabeth Alexander and Southern Spaces...

Antietam

...feel the battlefield moving inside of me.   Published in I Was the Jukebox (New York: W.W. Norton, 2010). Published: 22 September 2011 © 2011 Sandra Beasley and Southern Spaces...

My Grandmother's Plot in the Family Cemetery

...Sister, one of those who never married.   Published in Late Wife (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005). Published: 26 October 2009 © 2009 Claudia Emerson and Southern Spaces...

Image Credits

Image Credits for "Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces" Collage by Eric Solomon Unless specified otherwise, all images are in the public domain or courtesy of Eric Solomon, including: ACT UP lips...

From A Field Guide to Etowah County

...written in your skin.   Published in Murder Ballads (2005). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 1 April 2008 © 2008 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...