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

Murray Mountain, North Carolina

...it's lit up and is never going to change. The quiet is gone and it's never going to change." Published: 5 June 2007 © 2007 Rob Amberg and Southern Spaces...

Scarecrow

...the use of our hands. Published in Please (Kalamazoo, Michigan: New Issues Poetry & Prose, Western Michigan University, 2009). Published: 4 March 2010 © 2010 Jericho Brown and Southern Spaces...

Higgins Branch, North Carolina

Tombstones flagged for removal at the Higgins Branch Cemetery, Higgins Branch, NC, 1995. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Published: 5 June 2007 © 2007 Rob Amberg and Southern Spaces...

The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron

...the songs, from the blood, from all the voices that beg for mercy.   Published in The Boatloads (2008) Published: 24 November 2008 © 2008 Dan Albergotti and Southern Spaces...

Mars Hill, North Carolina

...Signage on NC 213 in Mars Hill, Mars Hill NC, 2004. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. second image alt Published: 5 June 2007 © 2007 Rob Amberg and Southern Spaces...

California Creek, North Carolina

...undercut the highway over time, California Creek, NC, 1998. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Sign placed on the job site by the contractor, Gilbert Southern, encouraging higher quotas in an...

Sams Gap, North Carolina

...a lot and had to deal with a lot.  It gives you new understanding into those kind of things." Published: 5 June 2007 © 2007 Rob Amberg and Southern Spaces...

Brass Knuckles

...didn't like the look on that ol' nigger's face.   Published in Chattahoochee (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2004). Published: 14 April 2009 © 2009 Patrick Phillips and Southern Spaces...

Laurel River, North Carolina

...the columns for the new bridge over the Laurel River, Laurel River, NC, 2002. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Published: 5 June 2007 © 2007 Rob Amberg and Southern Spaces...

Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley

Jim Bunkley interview. Recorded in Geneva, Georgia, 1969. Bunkley discusses his life, music, and brief work in a medicine show in Southwest Georgia. Courtesy of George Mitchell and Fat Possum...