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

Stones and Shadows

...us. The birds watch us. The blade's shadow quietly cuts X from I.   Published in The Boatloads (2008) Published: 24 November 2008 © 2008 Dan Albergotti and Southern Spaces...

Heaven

...will be the past. And it will last forever.   Published in Boy (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008). Published: 14 April 2009 © 2009 Patrick Phillips and Southern Spaces...

At Sun Ra's Grave

...sounds emerge.   Published in A Murmuration of Starlings (2008). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 1 April 2008 © 2008 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...

Chattahoochee (excerpt)

...on the spool, slack as a fallen kite string.   Published in Chattahoochee (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2004). Published: 14 April 2009 © 2009 Patrick Phillips and Southern Spaces...

Talk Radio, D.C.

...fever broke and the fish was all cooked.   Published in Body of Life (Chicago: Tia Chucha Press, 1996). Published: 10 December 2009 © 2009 Elizabeth Alexander and Southern Spaces...

Ellipsis

...of something sweet, something sour, something always in its place.   Published in American Sublime (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2005). Published: 10 December 2009 © 2009 Elizabeth Alexander and Southern Spaces...

Prayer of the Backhanded

...think to say, excuse me. Published in Please (Kalamazoo, Michigan: New Issues Poetry & Prose, Western Michigan University, 2009). Published: 4 March 2010 © 2010 Jericho Brown and Southern Spaces...

Congregation

...in the other carry everything else he had.   Published in Beyond Katrina (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010). Published: 9 September 2010 © 2010 Natasha Trethewey and Southern Spaces...

Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment

...July 25, 1946.  In his Southern Spaces essay "'Holding on to Those Who Can't be Held': Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia," Mark Auslander explores the complexities of this ritual performance....