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

Encountering COVID

...person and I got in the groove. What sustained me was how surprised I was every single time I got to listen to somebody else. I mean, there were genuine...

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

...and architectural decay. The soundscape intensifies the experience. Bey worked with vocalist and composer Imani Uzuri to articulate the narrative perspective of “Evergreen” where the camera does not reflect a...

Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights

...American construction and real estate executive, came on the Atlanta market for $675,000. The listing video characterizes Russell's home as a hub for both real estate transactions, political strategy sessions,...

Stand & Witness: Art in the Time of COVID-19

How To Navigate We’ve arranged Stand & Witness as a guided tour. We recommend that you move through the exhibition according to the numbered tour stops or “hotspots.” To start...

August, 1959: Morning Service

...and the gravestones leaned as if even the dead were listening.   Published in Virginia Quarterly Review (Summer 2000). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 6 December...

Walt Whitman in Alabama

...down the channel to listen for the baby's dreams — all years after the whorehouses, the fires, Reconstruction and true religion came, after Whitman said his piece and left the...

Sweep

...has died form each class. Seamless gray sky, horns from the four-lane, the lot’s oil slicks rainbowing and dimpling with rain. I have been home for three days, listening to...

Homage to Mississippi John Hurt

...him, he asked, "Who is playing the other guitar?" He darted and slurred, a syncopation, a waltz evolving to jig. By slowing the record down and listening, a phrase at...