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

John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943

...his hat. He double-checked the folded pieces of paper, then stacked them all next to the tracks. He crouched down as the train approached. The conductor didn't see him. The...

The State House Aflame 1833

...a negro man named Sam, the slave of Mr. Marlow, of this place. And the legislature will reward Sam's fast action, heedless of his own safety, by appropriating $1,600 for...

Consolation

...pockets like a charm we turn as we walk home again gleaming in the delicate light of the bright, unfalling stars. "Consolation" first appeared in Blackbird and was collected in...

Another Failed Poem About the Greeks

...catamite. When we ratcheted to a full stop he said Again. We went on the Scrambler, the Apple Turnover, the Log Flume. We went on the Pirate Ship three times,...

#209, Long Meter

...our best spices flow abroad    To entertain our Saviour God;    And faith and love and joy appear,    And every grace be active here.   From Lloyd, Benjamin,...

The Gospel Pool, Short Meter, 444t

Beside the gospel pool, Appointed for the poor, From time to time my helpless soul Has waited for a cure. The hill of Zion yields A thousand sacred sweets, Before...