Packin' Four Corner Nabs
...the Super’s flood lights now circling us and flashin’ like a prison yard counter escape warden super packin' something else we’re past and out I look at Sadie she whispers...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...lowlands. In contrast, blacks were viewed as admirably adapted for it by providential design or the experience of living in Africa for millennia. Place—climate and landscape—was crucial to comprehending southern...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...Irma (2017). Hurricane Matthew, in particular, uprooted many of the older live oaks on the island and otherwise dramatically altered its landscape. Although Ossabaw is often labeled as "pristine," humans...
Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19
...urban landscape, e.g. occupancy of office buildings; closure of retail stores; restructuring of restaurants and pedestrian spaces? How are the over one million lives lost to Covid in the United...
Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
...covering former salt-marsh environments. Also note new-growth smooth cordgrass on the relict marsh. 2:46 – The transitions of Nannygoat Beach include offshore sands, beach, coastal dunes, back-dune meadows, and maritime...
Just as Sure
...Covered farms, drowned a tree or two. They bought all the land on that new shore. And you know, things gon keep changing as sure as fools make decisions with...
Off-Season
...we returned to what we both knew and belonged to. The off-season only an off-shoot in what we were meant to be. You never did know this part of what...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...she thinks I wouldn’t know. Published in Abandoned Quarry: New and Selected Poems (Mercer, GA: Mercer University Press, 2011). Published: 31 October 2011 © 2011 John Lane and Southern Spaces...
The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...fabrics manufactured in New England's textile mills and shipped to southern dry-goods stores. Spartanburg County did not develop into a major textile-production center until the end of the century; this...
Making History
...pull out spoon after spoon after spoon. Published in I Was the Jukebox (New York: W.W. Norton, 2010). Published: 22 September 2011 © 2011 Sandra Beasley and Southern Spaces...