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

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...

Six Yellow Stanzas

...bedroom: things that are yellow and yellow alone.   Published in Body of Life (Chicago: Tia Chucha Press, 1996). Published: 10 December 2009 © 2009 Elizabeth Alexander and Southern Spaces...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Atlanta’s Tumultuous Fifties Fifty Years Later

Video Part 2: Dr. Crimmins discusses the Lane Brothers photograph collection, highlighting Atlanta's physical and cultural landscapes Part 3: Dr. Holmes examines how voter registration and Atlanta politics play into...

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...