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

Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction

...a social geography that they were remaking to suit themselves. In annual Bridge Crossing speeches, the Alabama River often becomes the Jordan or the Red Sea, watery passageways leading to...

LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72

...Cayetano, Tim Short and Annisa Wedderburn.  and graffiti artist SKIE, a live musical performance by local rap artists Jack Preston and Small Eyez, and a salon-style dialogue between the LiFT team and...

Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020

...rethink what activism means. "Pleasure activism," writes brown, "is about learning what it means to be satisfiable, to generate, from within and from between us, an abundance from which we...

Encountering COVID

...of fact, I'm in the RV at Jordan Lake State Park near Chapel Hill. It's about ten minutes from where I raised the kids. I have a twenty-three-year-old who has...

Saints at the River and Selected Poems

...species, which it was, which all songs are, years before the stroke wrenched her face into a gnarled silence, this morning before all that she led us across Jordan, and...

Love and Death in Mississippi

...they died. Down in the Delta, the alluvial floodplain between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers in northwest Mississippi, perennially listed as the poorest and most unhealthy region in the country,...