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

I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees

...rise in its indifferent passion.   Published in Salvation Blues: One Hundred Poems, 1985-2005 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), 8-9. Published: 22 January 2009 © 2009 Rodney Jones and Southern Spaces...

Margaret Walker's "Micah" (1970)

...they shall not be remembered in the Book of Life. Micah was a man.   Published in Prophet's for a New Day Published: 11 March 2008 © 2008 Southern Spaces...

Elegy for the Native Guards

...the fort remains, near forty feet high round, unfinished, half-open to the sky, the elements—wind, rain—God's deliberate eye.   Published: 10 June 2005 © 2005 Natasha Trethewey and Southern Spaces...

Tuscaloosa: Riversong

...spit in the scripture's eye do not walk across my water do this in remembrance of me   Published: 23 September 2005 © 2005 Honorée Fanonne Jeffers and Southern Spaces...

Memphis, Tennessee images

...Autozone Park is the home to the Memphis Redbirds, the AAA affiliate of the National League's St. Louis Cardinals. Published: 28 February 2007 © 2007 David Wharton and Southern Spaces...

Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]

...the bandannas with railroad men, and the simplicity of its construction may have seemed appropriate for a small boy. Published: 19 May 2006 © 2006 Laurel Horton and Southern Spaces...